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 | Oct 16, 2024 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Blue Lagoon by Christy Mandeville La Jolla Shores Beach Children’s Pool Today, I was completelyneutral trudging through sand,wiggling and wrapping my toesaround sea berries.I walked right up the edgeof the rocks, inhaled, readyto go splat, but...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 9, 2024 | Art, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Finding Freedom by Andrea Damic Flowerbeds After Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘End of Summer’ The camera makes a mirrored bandjust above the peaks, gives the world a roof; last summer all seemed unbowed,the park contained secret immensities, we...
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 | Sep 5, 2024 | Art, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Container of dreams by Natalie Christensen Goody-Two-Shoes Aren’t we setting the bar for virtuea tad low here? I’m glad that was never your style—chatting about Boston, cow-tippings in Austin,how you need your café au lait before you write a...
