by JL Jacobs | Feb 9, 2018 | Poetry
Art: The Refuge of Hades by Joe Papagoda, @papagoda MESTASTIANITY Cancer has its own rituals. The way smoke rises, ordered, three inches the diverges, spreads through airstream. Waking up to consider the options—getting out of bed, suicide. Oversensitivity. A lump,...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 7, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: IKEA Painting 6 by Alan Neider, @aneider52 THE LITTLE YELLOW HOUSE she calls it. A yellow as yellow as any Dutch daffodil. She steers her tan Audi Fox up the driveway and pauses in her car until her favorite Cat Stevens song ends. Yellow has been her favorite...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 5, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: Beyond the Plains of Eternity by Jolanda Richter, @jolandarichter THE ILLUSTRATED QUEENFISHER Headmistress Nielsen ripped the offending page from the book, then held it close to the girl’s face. Rather than flinching, the intended reaction, Pia grabbed the page...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nikosono, @zebranude STAR SPANGLED MEXICAN “Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” Sgt. Major Dan Daly You are the exterminators. We are the cockroaches. You can shoo us. Step on us. Spray poison in the air. Chase us out. Build a higher wall....
by JL Jacobs | Jan 31, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Thomas Kräher, @tkraeher. 33 SENTENTIOUS EPIGRAPHS THAT MAY – OR NOT – PROMPT A POEM The purpose of writing poems is to save epigraphs. – Kay Ryan In the beginning, God. * What’s a twist of...
