by JL Jacobs | Jun 16, 2021 | Art, Art Feature, Nature, Photography
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...