by JL Jacobs | May 11, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nancy Shuler LET IT COME TO YOU Don’t coax. Don’t lurch forward, don’t throw logs across to reach it – it will disperse. Let it come like rain against your skin. Like a dog with a broken chain. Like wrappers tangled in the grass after spring’s first thaw. Don’t...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Photography by Alison Prine KINSHIP WITH INSTINCTS Finding citing vivid insights tiring I’m idling, childish, in hiding, minding swirling birds girding virgin birch, flirting in whirlwind skirmishings, chirping birthrights within this singing, fix’d in strict...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 21, 2018 | Photography, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: Photography by Alison Prine NEVER THE DISTANCE Just after the embarrassment of being young comes the embarrassment of aging. And in between – pelted with questions – you try to say yes. You try to take someone in your arms and want them. I let apples rot in the...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 22, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Ferrandis Issaev, @ferrandisissaev IMPERATIVE not happiness, not the petal, not the wing not the breeze that teases the flesh, carries the little leaf – but the rock you stand on the thick rope ladder, the sturdy wooden boat, the weathered beam, the dock – heft...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 20, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Lady 1 from the Antique Series by David Rodriguez, @davidofficialclub THE WHITE CURTAIN pulled around you is immaculate as a field of snow, and has the same protective instinct. This could be temporary. White sky suggests a pause. A blank screen evokes omission....
