by JL Jacobs | May 11, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nancy Shuler LET IT COME TO YOU Don’t coax. Don’t lurch forward, don’t throw logs across to reach it – it will disperse. Let it come like rain against your skin. Like a dog with a broken chain. Like wrappers tangled in the grass after spring’s first thaw. Don’t...
by JL Jacobs | May 9, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Guilherme Bergamini SPHERE The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances. -Thelonious Monk this discord is alien a dervish whirling and salient If somebody else did...
by JL Jacobs | May 7, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Walid Sad REAR VIEW MIRROR About the author: John L. Stanizzi is author of the full-length collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, and Chants. His poems have appeared in...
by JL Jacobs | May 4, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Guilherme Bergamini DISCLOSURE About the author: John L. Stanizzi is author of the full-length collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, and Chants. His poems have appeared...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Guilherme Bergamini MOTHER RUSSIA She keeps you shut inside her. In her wooden womb, you grow smaller, smaller. Your ears are sealed beneath a babushka. You sit woodenly through winter, your cheeks wind-burnt red circles. Your mouth, it never opens. Nyet to...