by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Optical Delusions by Gavin Mayhew HAPPY PLANET Our orb, unsolitary yet singular, orbits and tilts amid the cosmos’ coruscating spectacle, a turbid backdrop of coiled galaxies and phantasmal nebulae concealing answers to queries unfathomable. Any...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 27, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: City Bird by Nancy Shuler THE THINGS YOU SEE WAITING FOR COFFEE Crawling baby to slouching ape to broken-hearted man, he staggered away. The picture of a breakup song. With white text on black background end credits. Raindrops exploded on his clothes in slow...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fae Waters by Aleah Fitzwater WELL SEEN Shutter blades nictate for a fraction of a second to capture the stelliform aura emitted by midday’s orb, though the artiste (partnering with light) prefers shooting at dawn or dusk when soft glows allow images...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 22, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Gesture by Allen Forrest TURTLES, BIRDS, AND OTHERS (Observational Haiku) Turtles 9/10/16 a big turtle crawls on the base of the river, a school of small fish 9/23/16 the big turtle sits on a rock in the river as the water flows ...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 20, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: What becomes of the broken tartlet by Adam De Ville IMPLOSION What’s coming down is not freezing rain but diffuse flakes melting on the panes of the kitchen window. The rain that they predicted has probably arrived and passed in the course of the night. Footsteps...