XENITH

The letter n
by Robert Jacoby

The letter n
signifies
harmony
in its capacity to open
loose its insides
upside down
with clarity of purpose
without thought.

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Robert Jacoby pursues happiness in Maryland. His most recent poetry has appeared in The 2 River View and The Vocabula Review (October 2008) is upcoming in Slow Trains (Spring 2009) and in Dogzplot (Spring 2009). His first novel, There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes, is seeking a publisher, as is his nonfiction book, Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales, a memoir-by-interview of a 61-year-old, life-long merchant seaman re-counting his fantastic, hilarious, and politically incorrect exploits (excerpts have been published in The Oregon Literary Review and Alice Blue Review). He is working on another novel, Dusk and Ember, and a collection of poetry, Stars Fall Nude, from which these poems are taken.

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