I've been fighting a monster for ten weeks. He attacks while I'm innocently dreaming about heirloom tomatoes and new cultivars of columbine. In the morning I rush to my garden to repair his destruction: over-turned begonias, pentas, and portulaca with exposed roots and wilting leaves who gasp—the armadillo did it—before they die.

Jules Jacob

Jules Jacob PoetJules Jacob is the author of Kingdom of Glass & Seed (forthcoming Lily Poetry Review Books, October 8, 2023), The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in The New Women's Voices Series (Finishing Line Press), and co-author with Sonja Johanson of Rappaccini's Garden (White Stag Press, forthcoming December 2023). Her poems are featured in Lily Poetry Review, Plume Poetry, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Jules is the recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France.

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