by JL Jacobs | Sep 14, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Blue Sea by Britnie Walston Catherine When Mom and I arrived, you hid the donut behind the picture.You sat in the sunny kitchen, embarrassed that you’d been caught with a sweet.My mother tsk-tsked as you deflected our attention to the...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 7, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Johnstown Flood by Paul Luikart Tapping Out Technically, practice ended five minutes earlier, but every Thursday Coach Ian offered to take on any student, setting aside the Emirates Athletic Conference wrestling rules (and its code of...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 31, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Skrik wakker by Gary Freir What We’ve Left In this future we’ve createdall of the butterfly eggs are sterileand the flowers have no scent. This will bethe last season of butterflies in this part of the world. In the overgrown weeds and...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 17, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Landscape in Orange Tones by John Timothy Robinson The Predicament of Breathlessness, II Since you’ve been gone,I’ve been vaping a void trying to acclimate with-out your skin and breath. The table is bare no matterwhat’s on its surface, and the...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 11, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Rejection at the altar by Darrell Black Mixolydian Mixup An Arcadian arcanist,β-cadence marks a serrated betta’s graded circadian;a seance waning, once cicadas serenaded waded in.Sepulcher seas and cemetery streams, stretching seams...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 3, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art by Cyril Larvor Singing Tibetan Bowl We were at the Princeton University Campus, racing to class through the quad. I spotted you ahead on the sidewalk, in your fast lane. You were a bright red Corvette of a man, speeding one hundred and twenty miles...