by JL Jacobs | Dec 18, 2024 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Midnight Reminiscence by Britnie Walston I Wanted There to be Water We went back today, drove along the ash-ladenroad into the mountains where we used to liveand love. The big pit, our basement, where wemade art and wrote and read and lay in the foldsof...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 5, 2024 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art by Lennie Duensing *All works previously published in “The Book of Mirrors”, White Pine Press, 2021 Liebestraum A tree blooms in the night sky Each star a flower forbidden A stranger plays the piano pulses light to...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 13, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Nature, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Bandelier by Kathleen Frank Kontagora In Kontagora red chickenspeck the army barracks’red clay soccer patch.Barefoot village boys conjure dust devils,hoofing crumpled ballsthrough your rooted legs.A spindly one lingers.He play-punches and nicks your camouflage...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 31, 2024 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Floating Bridge by Jeff Corwin Coat of Many Praises The window tornwith welcome – no magic Except that swinginggate that opens, putsOn its coat and praises. Schuylkill Frowns I watch it sweep all by – detritus wins.One...
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 | Jun 28, 2024 | Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
From series “Transitory Space” Color field, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2015 by Leah Oates As Wildflowers I think I’ve found a cure for all the shamewe were taught to feel within our bodies:instead of flesh and bone, imagine this—a...