Ragamala
I never wanted a home
nor a Lotus Sutra
I am not a lotus eater
a home
is a place
to hang
history
floating
in etymological
soundfacts
a privilege
that is created
by language
illusions
orange heavily
hung my welcome’d neck
my funeral
sewn into scented mala
pollinated bead mantras
un god’d
in which I gallow
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Brian L. Jacobs resides with his husband in California, has been teaching English thirty years and is working on his PhD. He was the assistant to Poet Allen Ginsberg while earning his MFA. During that time he walked halfway around the world while on a peace pilgrimage. Brian is also a three-time Fulbright Scholar, a NEH grant recipient and renewed poet.
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