Saturday Poetry – ’14 Love Songs’ by Elizabeth Jacobson
Saturday Poetry – ’14 Love Songs’ by Elizabeth Jacobson
This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ’14 Love Songs’ by Elizabeth Jacobson. She is the author of Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2019) which won the New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Marianne Boruch. She is the Reviews Editor for Terrain.org and poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Jacobson’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @krimzenphotography with the captivating artwork untitled complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions.
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via Poets.org
’14 Love Songs’ by Elizabeth Jacobson
Above a pond, I sit on a wooden bench
and throw pebbles into the willows.
A rush of sunlight and wind creates a path in a channel of water, dances
between the melting ice and brown islands of Bulrush.
The resident osprey, its eyes the colour of yellow grass,
follows my tossing hand.
Love is a diorama of inner life in an outer world.
I look down and find a chunk of fossilized rock
with an entire Paleozoic shell sticking out.
I am not afraid of love, but terrified of how it is my steady guide.
Once, when tired, I wandered off the trail and crawled under a tree to rest.
I woke to a young brown bear licking my boot.
Nothing had ever felt that good.
When I say I love you, what I mean is I wouldn’t leave you.
Even if love is not loved back it doesn’t go away,
although it may become a black hole.
Could this be what it’s like for trees to lose the green from their leaves?
At noon the light shifts and the pond turns
into a mosaic of opaque green ice.
Orange carp rise in these cold watery chambers to breathe at the surface.
Always I am in love. Face to face with the sun. Face to face with the moon.
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