Sulci

The lapidary poems in Sulci, polished to a deceptively sharp simplicity, explore the everyday world with a jeweller’s eye. Here are trees at dawn, miming the contours of a brain. Here are creeping vines as epigraphs to abandoned homes. A child watches a sunrise, fence nails possess an afterlife. The objects and moments captured by Jacobs’ sensibility sketch out the richness of a well-examined life, all the more moving for their bright, clear encapsulation.

The abandoned

home’s virginia

creeper

an epigraph

outgrowing

the poem.

Danny Jacobs lives in Riverview, NB. His last book, Sourcebooks for Our Drawings: Essays & Remnants, won the 2019 WFNB Nonfiction Award. A novel is forthcoming in 2025.