by JL Jacobs | Jun 28, 2024 | Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
From series “Transitory Space” Color field, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2015 by Leah Oates As Wildflowers I think I’ve found a cure for all the shamewe were taught to feel within our bodies:instead of flesh and bone, imagine this—a...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Summer by Cynthia Yatchman Depression Isn’t Something That Should Be Kept Secret (But It Often Is) What I gave to the grassand space was neversundown shadowscurving and highupon the canopy No but I loitered there enjoyingthis grass quietly...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 19, 2024 | Fiction, Photography, Photography, Lifestyle and Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Bleak by Jiayi Ji A Sudden Passion It was the memorial for his father, a tedious, even boringly arranged affair which, in its paint-by- numbers planning and total lack of the unforeseen—so anticipated and prepared for had been the death itself—was...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 11, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Orna by Alahna Alvé Knotted Thoughts Relaxing on her rocking chair in the veranda under the tiger-striped sky, Meena tries to enjoy the warmth of the sun’s rays caressing her creased cheeks. On close scrutiny, she finds the two close tall...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 4, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Warmth of Other Suns by GJ Gillespie Once More to the Lake The nervy swimmers The pinball darters Those refuged behind downed oaks The skimmers gill breathers fin slappers The shapeless undulaters The graduates of Arthur...
