Dan Jacoby
Gravity
walking to class one day
on those soaked wet sidewalks
on west pine
strained sore eyes water filled
did find hope and common foundation
so fragile it broke like thin cheap china
slowly in bits and pieces of 1960's reality
like a kerouac crossing mentality that
in the next decade wandering lost
on platform shoes and wide collars
flowers ripped from hands
somewhere in san francisco
or in a village coffee house
the magic dragon lost
to the establishment
all of us now
poets of the night
Bio
Dan Jacoby is a graduate of St. Louis University, Chicago State University, and Governors State University. He lives both in Beecher and Hagaman, Illinois. He has published poetry in Arkansas Review, Belle Rev Review, Bombay Gin, Canary, Cowboy Poetry Press-Unbridled 2015( Western Writers Spur Award), Chicago Literati, Indiana Voice Journal, Deep South Magazine, Lines and Stars, Wilderness House Literary Review, Steel Toe Review, The Opiate, and Red Fez to name a few. He is a former principal, teacher, coach, counterintelligence agent, and Green Beret. He is a member of the American Academy of Poets. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. He is currently looking for a publisher for a collection of poetry.