by JL Jacobs | Jul 22, 2020 | Art, Poetry
For Schopenhauer Show me your sun-drenched sprigs of winter, The juniper bug as he howls, The rise and fall of oatmeal In the misty dawn of a burgeoning wahoo! Show me these things, My sweet, bare-faced darling, And I shall inherit your property With the gay...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 15, 2020 | Art, Poetry
<1. Swear> Wishes in your eyelashes & you know it’s over, She brushes your hair out of her dreams, almost a cadence snore & wheeze, like an old neighbor’s seashell wind-chime, Wafting over a sky full of hope Not all poetry fits inside a wine...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
Millie and Me Two girls bounce a ball as I watch through the two panes. A bicycle lies beside a circle of tarmac where a playground roundabout once spun. A boy climbs a steel frame and a woman carries a plastic bag across the courtyard. Above them, an old man...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 10, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
It’s Death That Brings us Spring It’s late December at Tule Lake, in Northern California, near the Oregon border. We hunt quail and cottontail. All morning we fight crossfire snow against its attempt of immutability. This is the day I will discover that...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 3, 2020 | Art, Fiction
Art: Road by Oksana Reznik Congrats & Prayers Because it’s my birthday, I pour another Maker’s Mark. Two fingers, though one’s sympathetic to the eczema blister on my middle knuckle, the whiskey aligned with the peak of that stress-induced hump, gaining me...
by JL Jacobs | May 27, 2020 | Art, Fiction
Art: After the Rainbow by Oksana Reznik Fever Dream Within an instant everything else faded out into the background, and they felt the universe shift into place. They had not been aware that it was not harmonious before. “I’ve met you,” she said. “I...
