by JL Jacobs | Jun 16, 2021 | Art Feature
Infinity in Moonlight by Ralph Maratta THE WORLDS THAT CHOOSE YOU The night sky yielded an early way to help people navigate. The stars also gave societies a source for stretching their imaginations and letting their minds wander. Science duly dispels...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 9, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art: Harmonia by Márcia Tannure Adoption, Day 88 6am is darker and darker red every morning. To look at the sky, the host-animal around us is returning to life. I swing your legs parallel, settle you across my lap, blanket us both. You lean back into my arms, all...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 2, 2021 | Art, Fiction
Art: Jane Desonier Eurydice Emerges into the Light so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back—H.D., “Eurydice” I can relate to the poet H.D.’s interpretation of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I have (more than once) fallen in love with...
by JL Jacobs | May 26, 2021 | Photography, Poetry
Photography: Rebecca Ruth Gould Berlin’s Sky Berlin’s sky is bluer than the sea. Its surface is an ocean crested with foam. The paper-thin skyscraper poised above Potsdamer Platz is ready to fall. It will outlive us all. Meanwhile,...
by JL Jacobs | May 20, 2021 | Art, Article
Art: Monstragity by Robert Ferrier Tundra Swans Twice You don’t hear scientists beating up on the poets, as a rule, but the poets are always complaining about science. Poe called science a “Vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” Dickinson’s “Split...
