Jules Jacob: Dreamscape

Dreamscape 

He towers in coral

red and blue,

bold as any man

living on the edge

of a Thomas Hart Benton

landscape     his shadow

falling over my rolling-eyed

horse and the defeated

cornstalks smoldering

in charcoal slashes.

Eyes bulging,

hammer in oversized

hands     he swings,

splitting the mocking

black-green sky, the screech

of the missile

before it hit the ground.

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Julie “Jules” Jacob is the author of The Glass Sponge (Finishing Line Press) and a 2015 resident of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Poetry Workshop in France. Her work has recently appeared in burntdistrict, The Tishman Review, Thirteen Myna Birds, Paper Nautilus, Rust + Moth, and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. She attended The University of New Hampshire, The Horticultural Therapy Institute and Colorado State University. Jules advocates for abused and neglected children for CASA of Southwest Missouri and is an Emeritus Master Gardener for the University of Missouri Extension. Learn more at julesjacob.com.