by JL Jacobs | Oct 24, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
A Delicate Balance by Bette Ridgeway The Revenance of Reverence 1It abandons you, leaves you parched and dried-outon the desert floor . . .returns in dribs & drabs,passing epiphanies—the adagio of that mourning doveon your lawn, the...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 18, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Challenging the Medium by Marguerite Ogden Self-Portrait If I Were Stumbling & if I climb behind you—way back, behindthe chair, between the sky & the bluegreen fabric me back there, where I am apple ...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 12, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Frontier by Nicholas Kriefall Mostly False Statements from My Imaginary Biography A voracious reader, by ten he had devoured the great works of Hugo, Zola, and Flaubert in French, so he turned to the Russians. At eleven he despaired of literature...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 1, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Autom by Ryan Seo House of Cats What you know is not enough. Kitten steps on a wedding dress, youwill see blue glass. thisredemption stole to swallowtwo lives down thisfallow path, acat-eye spiral gone strange.Take south, then senda story wise...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 2, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Untitled 3 6.34” x 6.34” mixed media on found wood Makes You Happy When I was coming up my mama and daddygot their groove every Saturday night listening to some Earth Wind and Fire and Al Green.Have you ever seen old people listen to Al Green?It’s...
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...