by JL Jacobs | Nov 6, 2017 | Short Fiction
Art: Vera Fonseka, @verafonsekaart THE BEAST Sometimes you lie on your bed and remember. You remember the time uncle Josh came back from Canada and brought you the air pistol. He had to smuggle it in through customs. It was just like the ones you saw advertised on the...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 1, 2017 | Goncalves, Poetry
Art: André Gonçalves, @andre_goncalves_arts C.D. WRIGHT, SHALLCROSS Who will be the author? Speak for and to and with. What did I miss? Reeling, with remedy. A subject of big hands. Self-portrait, ibid. Taxonomy. This body an ocean. Relentless. Intimate, charged. How...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 1, 2017 | Goncalves, Poetry
Art: Alexandra Bath by André Gonçalves, @andre_goncalves_arts THE GLASS AS HALF 1 Being alive in the moment and the moment to come. The drinking glass is a mind nourished on a facsimile of emptiness. The faucet sings one clear drip after another. The glass as half is...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 31, 2017 | Poetry
Art: William Zuback, @williamzubackphotographs PORTRAIT OF ANNA ZBOROWSKA, 1917 (AMADEO MODIGLIANI) Hard to miss me in a crowd or anywhere else with my long neck and longer face frowning mouth and eyebrows black eyes too dark for others to see in too dark for me to...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 26, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Cyril Larvor, @cyrillarvor RECIPE FOR A BETTER WORLD Don’t you know the difference between a potato and a lion? That’s odd. They put lions on pajamas but not potatoes. You’ll never see potatoes on your brother’s pajamas. Lions roar. Lions are not called spuds....
