Recenter Press
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  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews

our

BY JACOB FOWLER.


​our home
we made into home with pictures of blackberry stained
fingers
macabre summertime and made up bed times made us
kids longer than our ages allowed
everything is made especially
the family unit
 if my mother met me under other circumstances
I’m not convinced she’d love me
but under the current
arrangements it worked out
we shared a home
I am the
replacement of my father’s labor and thus deserving of a home
our home will have a baby that grandparents see only
sometimes
our home makes deference to the retirees
among whom I may never rank

three meditations

BY JACOB FOWLER.

road
       a car is a sort of cult
       insofar as it is insular
       and is likely to kill

pedagogy
       you can lead a horse to water
       and it can kick you in the head
       the river was warmer than usual

home
       home is what is hurtling toward us
       life is too long
       ​not to demand everything

Jacob Fowler is an elementary school teacher living in Oakland, CA. His work has appeared in Prolit Magazine, Exposition Review, Soft Cartel, and The Sunlight Press, among others. You can find him on Twitter @online_jacob_. 
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews