Jerin Anne Jacob
Apathy Does Not Breed Good Fruit
Apathy breeds like anthracnose
Tan lesions on our woody, shrub-aceous lives
Maturing the way rich ripe plums do.
Danger is then
when apathy hungrily harvests
a world - comfortably dying -
When you rinse the numb
warts off the globe
Remember to filter
your tools, wash them
clean again - for dry, stubborn
Plum stains
Indifference, as black knot - propagates inscience
Teach them to comprehend the colors of biotic violence,
Subtlety: prunes are oblivious to taste
There’s not one moyer plum rock worth camouflaging under.
Apathy breeds like anthracnose
Tan lesions on our woody, shrub-aceous lives
Maturing the way rich ripe plums do.
Danger is then
when apathy hungrily harvests
a world - comfortably dying -
When you rinse the numb
warts off the globe
Remember to filter
your tools, wash them
clean again - for dry, stubborn
Plum stains
Indifference, as black knot - propagates inscience
Teach them to comprehend the colors of biotic violence,
Subtlety: prunes are oblivious to taste
There’s not one moyer plum rock worth camouflaging under.
Jerin Anne Jacob is a poet, educator, researcher, and social entrepreneur. A teacher of literature and language, she is currently also pursuing her doctoral research on feminist retellings of biblical narratives in India. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Press Pause Press, EKL Review, Paper Dragon, Gulmohur Quarterly, and an anthology tentatively titled Of Dry Tongues and Brave Hearts.