2 poems in Cobalt Review Issue 10

I'm really pleased with how both turned out. And that they have a permanent home in Cobalt Review, Issue 10 (Winter 2013).

I worked on "is Joy" for two years.

"When I told you I was thinking about nothing, I lied" was easier in the most difficult way. Only took six months to produce. The first stanza bursts life:

Marry me in some tomb of king or prophet,
Say you are my clay and captured stream,
You of tree and field and rock and fish,
Hidden by time’s bright pocket and memory’s maps.

(Dedicated with much love and affection to my golden girl, Gina.)

Read both poems in Cobalt Review (Issue 10) (pages 37 and 38). (The issue contains an interview with National Book Award nominee David Kirby.)

PS: Read my other poetry at my website robert-jacoby/poetry.
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Merry Christmas!


Robert

"The destroyer of worlds speaks with one thousand mouths." (From "Tears wet the sea colour sky", unpublished) (dedicated to another)