Medicine Cabinet, by Jacob Taylor

Poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Sometimes the body breaks down, and sometimes the breakdown is in your head. With all the modern medical marvels of the twenty-first century, you can watch how the system breaks your illness down! Or is it the other way around?

A collection of mangled sprawling crawling clawing madness organized into poetry, Medicine Cabinet documents an American healthcare experience. Taylor researches the origins of their medicine and learns how to use the stairs again. They visit the doctor’s office, the emergency room and the pharmacy—and the doctors want more tests, and the doctors have sent a new Rx, and the doctors haven’t said it’s okay to leave the hospital yet.

Jacob Taylor grew up in Lehi, Utah and has oh so very many siblings. They don’t like being on hold with their health insurance company and are counting down the days until their health insurance company will cover their injections again. Jacob completed their bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Utah State University, and they are currently completing their PhD in creative writing at Illinois State University. You can find their writing in Birdcoat Quarterly, Sugar Suites, Press Pause Press, Turning Leaf Journal, and elsewhere. You can find them online at byjacobtaylor.com