Selected Poems from What Remains (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2016) published in Colorado Women News July 1993 and Montelibre, 1993.
One by one they circle the park,
Eagles facing east from
Courthouse columns
Capitol dome
Museum fortress
The glass rectangular offices of industry.
These are the closed edges of architecture,
This law, this art,
This swallowed literature,
The politics that burn
This island of seeds laid out like tiles On which we march.
It's another turn of another century,
stage-blood covers the globe,
Stains the pool of buildings
And the books of bones
That do not burn
A POEM FROM THE BOOK:
In 2016 Jacqueline’s first book of poems, What Remains, was published by Turkey Buzzard Press.
"I believe in the power of poetry lies in its play of time and memory with music and meaning. . . Who are we? we ask, and scraps of experience rain down."
(Photo credit: Peter Bryson, Nooknose.com)
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