Sally
by Dr. Lloyd Jacobs
Sally Kay, b. September 28, 1964, died
with six Fentanyl patches on her chest
arrayed in neat geometry between
her clavicles and her pensive breasts
many days dead when the police broke
the lock, splintering the jamb.
She fled I counted, the very night I
had lain fretting, praying without
believing in prayer, listening to the trees
and grasses, God’s woodwinds soughing
and heard her soul pass overhead
sintering the sounds of night.
Dr. Lloyd Jacobs is President Emeritus of The University of Toledo. He has published 3 collections of poetry and was previously a professor of vascular surgery at the University of Michigan.
