by JL Jacobs | Mar 24, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “The Battle” by David Conison ABSQUATULATION morning break steam from a cup of tea The Lark Ascending The prop I use for my PC screen is a venerable English-German dictionary, vintage 1870, source of scholarship then, now pedantry. Once,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 24, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Rizwan Ali MELTDOWN nights drawing in drops of melted wax form stalagmites The anticipated power cut. Office closed at four, as every day the past six weeks. Trams not running, she walks to the crèche to pick up her baby boy. To get home needs to take a...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 23, 2017 | Video
This poignant short piece reveals the emotion of longing and grief. It explores the menacing gift of immortality. The song “Angel Homeward” by Moby emphasizes the actor Trevor Stines’ dramatic performance in an unknown period setting. Watch below:...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 17, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Monotonic Tresinence” by Christopher Alexander VazQuez THE COLONIES We have been right from the beginning. but in the wrong way. The gods did come from the heavens, but they were not more glorious versions of ourselves. They were the microbes...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 17, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Kyrgyz Flock” by James Metelak Haibun by Jim Kacian no thing is what it seems, all words are slightly wrong . . . a freeble silted stream melandering by the farm might be Borges’ unnamed river of croglodytes and immortunity . . ....
