Negative Space “Sculpture is the science of the hollow and the bump.” Rodin “Sculpture is the science of the hollow and the bump,” Rodin Look how he has made me without edges flowing from with in on out of the earth like streams hills and hollows like the tree from which I came hewn shaped scraped Look at the nothing that is my core the empty hole around between that is hunger and possibility You are drawn from the whole to the hole the form is only the shell holding the hole Look at how he has made us Jay Jacoby Jay Jacoby is a happily retired English professor having taught for most of his career at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He now lives in the Western North Carolina mountains and is able to focus energies on creative writing. His writing has appeared in several journals and he has four new poems coming out soon in an anthology, Barricaded Bards: Poems from the Pandemic (March 2021, ArsPoetica, an imprint of Pisgah Press, LLC) .
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July 2025
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