NEO Poet Field Guide: Bonnie Jacobson

Full name:  Bonnie Jacobson

Age:  76 in November, God willing

Habitat: in my head

Range:  oh the sights I’ve seen

Diet: Russell Edson, Frederick Seidel, “Moonstruck,” “Pulp Fiction”

Distinguishing Markings:   2 collections (Stopping for Time, In Joanna’s House); 

2 chapbooks (“On Being Served Apples,” “Greatest Hits”);  poems in The Iowa Review,

The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Runes, etc.)

Predators:   zealots, death, and the humorless

Prey:okay, so I’m a carnivore

Contact info:  bonniejacobson@att.net

Call:

           HER BODY

           When she thinks of her body she thinks of his.

           There is no distinguishing.

           Or rather, there is and is not, as in

           This is my hand and these are its fingers.

           If he were to die, and years after

           At some party or other, you

           Saw her dancing

           You would be wrong.

           She was only remembering dancing.