by JL Jacobs | Aug 23, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: from Excavations series by Detlef Gotzens Change of Heart It’d make no differenceif you did or didn’t. I’m addressing a fly for the world’s been reduced to that–a self interest I cannot fault.But if you found...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 9, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: Contemplation by Alexey Adonin THE PIANO All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.Robert Hass, “Meditation at Lagunitas” I.I’m in a dwelling that does not existalthough here I am now in the dream—maybe an amalgam...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 4, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 21, 2023 | Memoir, Poetry
Art: Cotter Bridge, courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Cotter, Arkansas Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 7, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: Winter Sky On A Shallow by Léni Paquet-Morante Because the Sign Was Missing Because the sign was missing, we missed the turn and had to turn back, back to a narrow dirtroad veering blindly into thickset woods, and as we went, plunging...
