by JL Jacobs | Jun 12, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Throw Up Graffiti Before the Train Hits by Tony Adamo TECHNIQUE Incompletions gnaw instigating me to cross swords with self. Tattooed by nameless travesties I give into plowing wraiths of wasted seasons into choruses that chime: grammar and griffonage fit in with...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 10, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Openings by Linda Chapman LOOK AT THE WATER Two men had broken in through the kitchen window. That’s what my mother said. Her blue eyes were red by the time we arrived. My sister tried to calm her. I called the police. One officer, moustached and dark,...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 7, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Moving 1 by Caitlin Carter ILLUSION Shortly after having gone the rounds of his clients, Makoto parked his car in the parking lot of a convenience store beside a small park and bought a sandwich for his lunch and a pack of cigarettes. Blue hydrangea flowers in...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 5, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Boré Ivanoff PINE NUTS AT LUNCHTIME It was in the way of things That a casual sighting in a supermarket trolley In front of me of a packet of nuts And I was a girl again Delighting in that lunch-hour of freedom From sitting straight-backed, blank-eyed At...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 3, 2019 | Poetry
Art: A City for All by Aphrodite Lutz BEFORE THE PARTY It must have just stopped raining When we arrived. The road, licked for hours By the quiet slap of countless passing tyres, Gleamed blackly under the streetlamps Like wet liquorice. We sat for a moment Watching...
