by JL Jacobs | Mar 18, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Waiting by Alex Duensing A NUMBER ON REALITY My wife is behind me with her chemistry book open, her head buried in another world. Every once in a while she breaks the silence. “Light travels 3 million meters per second.” I stand up and stride across the room in...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 15, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Live Now by Andrew Flint Shipman CEZANNE’S APPLES The apples lie there, larger than life, leaping from the canvas, so many canvases—tempting; you paint them over and over, like real apples you eat and eat again, each bite bursting anew in your mouth; each...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 13, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Cyril Larvor NO LONGER IN A HURRY She was in a hurry, as usual. Turning the corner, she bumped into something soft and unyielding, and when she glanced up, she found herself face to face with a clown who stood totally still. The only thing in motion was the...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 11, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Red River Bridge by Nancy Shuler IN THE CLOCK ROOM AT THE RAILROAD MUSEUM Tinkering tick-tockers all: These are history’s duplicitous faces. These are Observer, Arcade No. 1, Lobby Clock, once proud to condescend every train. And these old teachers,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 8, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Peeking Through a Window by Caitlin Carter THE ROOMING HOUSE Katya was living in a dilapidated rooming house, in a decaying part of Chicago. At one time this house had been her home. The people who lived there were happy and used her establishment every time they...
