by JL Jacobs | Jan 31, 2020 | Short Fiction
Neshamele She is listening to love songs. She steps inside them and swims through her ears, breath held, and comes out the other side falling. She wants to find herself in the violence but she is never there, so she picks another fight with you, pressing into your...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 29, 2020 | Poetry
Bride of Christ Nobody lives forever. Miss Hooker said so and she’s my Sunday School teacher so there it is, I guess–the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God. But, she says, I have one chance to live forever even though...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 27, 2020 | Short Fiction
Let the Light Shine Through the Cracks “Did you come up here to sleep with me?” Charles asks when he sets the cup of coffee in front of me. “Did I miss that? Was I not supposed to actually make you coffee?” Charles is unlike any man I have...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 24, 2020 | Poetry
While Driving In a flash that comes to you on this very gray day as you drive to pick up your daughter, whom you love more than anything on this earth, you sense in your marrow with a thud —that any moment, you could lose those you love, those who give your life...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 22, 2020 | Poetry
Haggard She was waiting for me at the gate. She led me into the cellar and tried to open my eyes. My little sister, who had died a few hours after my grandmother, lay in the arms of a female marble. She whispered in ears, ...
