Kathryn JacobsLEGALLY DEADIf you were living it would complicate If you were even missing, on this date Your sister's married. She has children now, he never comes for Christmas. And by now as soon as we get past that: but I'm not. You look so promising in the collage whatever it would take to still the rage until they fix it (anyone). Your face so much waste. * * * TEMPORARY LIVES For those who patch a life together out despite that — them especially. Some doors To patch a life
Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and medievalist and Texas A & M - C who lost her son Ray at 18 in 2005. Generous, empathic and much loved, Ray has now been 'legally dead' long enough to be unknown to his sister Rachel's two small children. She keeps him alive in her poetry, which now spans four books and chapbooks (the latest , In Transit, appeared last year from David Robert Books) and over 150 individual publications in journals like The New Formalist, Measure, Poetry South, Raintown Review, Whiskey Island and Wordgathering. She also has a scholarly book, Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage (Florida University Press) and fourteen articles. |