In Transit, Poems by Kathryn Jacobs
Sample Poems by Kathryn Jacobs
The wit of Kathryn Jacobs’ In Transit is wry and observant, leavening humor with tart conclusions:
"Planet Pre-Owned"
"This planet's pre-owned." Well, I guess it is:
Strange advertisement, though. Be useful to
an alien, perhaps. "Hey, don't land here:
the whole globe's pre-owned, and we love to fight:
you're better off on Mars." Saves money, too;
A small investment in the Solar Times,
and we can concentrate on conquering
our earthbound friends and neighbors (Don't butt in:
it's just a family matter). So that works.
And really, if they've got their web-cams on,
they hardly need the warning; probably
they read our ads and laugh. I'm prudent though,
and when it comes to inter-species war.
I'd hate to be complacent. They get Mars.
Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and medievalist who took her doctorate at Harvard before joining the faculty at Texas A & M – C. Her chapbook Advice Column, appeared in 2008 with Finishing Line Press; Signs of Our Time appeared in 2009, from Pudding House Press. She has over a hundred poems published in a wide variety of excellent journals such as Measure, New Formalist, Acumen, Washington Literary Review, Poetry Midwest, Slant, Decanto, Mezzo Cammin, The Barefoot Muse, 14 by 14, etc. She has also written a scholarly book on medieval marriage customs and sixteen articles. She has two daughters living. Her son Raymond died in 2005, at age 18.
ISBN: 978-1936370481, 134 pages, $20.00