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...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 27, 2023 | Memoir, Photography
Art: Photography courtesy of Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions The following selection is from the book Road to Mound Grove by Betty B. Cantwell. Chapter Six THE STRANGER Olaree and I often played in the front yard by the chimney...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 4, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 21, 2023 | Memoir, Poetry
Art: Cotter Bridge, courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Cotter, Arkansas Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline...
