An East Davis poet for many years, James Lee Jobe has been published in Manzanita, Tule Review, Pearl, and many other periodicals. His online publications include Convergence, Knot Magazine, Poetry 24, Medusa's Kitchen, and The Original Van Gogh Anthology. Jobe has authored five chapbooks, he is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, practices Soto Zen, and is a Poet Laureat Emeritus of Davis. He is a socialist and a blogger, and easy to find on social media.

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James Lee Jobe of East Davis

 

The day is beautiful, it gives us a place to enter the light.
Likewise with the night and the darkness.
In the balance of this cycle, we grow and we love.

-james lee jobe

 

Boulders in the shallow water, covered
In clean white snow. The Yuba River
In the depths of winter. The sounds
Of water on rock is as true
As the Dharma. Ssh. Listen.

-james lee jobe