by JL Jacobs | Sep 8, 2023 | Art, Fiction, Short Fiction
Art: Thrallment of Reincarnation by Eric Chamberlain A Bolt is not a Screw It’s a bolt. Its threads are coarse or fine, the little ridges wide | | | | or narrow |||| depending on how tight youwant to be bound with me. They hold things together through...
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 | Aug 2, 2023 | Art, Memoir, Photography
Art: Ghost Rain by Briarwood Bohemian Do-It-Yourself Death came for my mother three times, and twice she refused to go. It was dangerous to underestimate how fierce she could be. Lying just below that sweet powdered veneer was a wounded animal ready to...
