Roberta Beach Jacobson

rooted
in a cavity
her sweet tooth

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

behind
the school’s red bricks
asbestos

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

eternal sleep Texas road kill

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

other people
but now
it’s us

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

in silence
the chill 
of onyx

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

voodoo politics
pins in the pumpkin

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

reprogramming
the alchemist’s scarab
AI

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

something in my third eye, a dagger

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

 under the sand lost toes

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

draped in faux fur cloakroom ghost

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

death bed
I fluff the pillows
for someone else

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

ants

trampled by bison

prairie song

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

a block from the cemetery
. . . blood drips
into the crankshaft

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

animal kingdom he eats his way through

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

second inning
in the catcher’s mitt
severed hand

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

nightshades
a simple matter
of trust

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

 pretending not to know . . . eye witness

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

toeing the line
fish fingers

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

silencing the screams duct tape

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

littering the byways discarded skeletons

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson

making
his evening funeral debut
archimime

— Roberta Beach Jacobson