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...
by JL Jacobs | May 28, 2024 | Lifestyle, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography, Prose
Snow on the Mountain by Rilla Askew Oklahoma Okla, “people” and humma, “red,” in Allen Wright’s Choctaw cognomenFor this heartland state where the Trail of Tears ended—not for CherokeesOnly, but for all Five Civilized Nations, for Sac and Fox,...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 11, 2023 | Art Feature, Nature, Photography
Lightning Storm Sandy Songer Two Of My Favorite Things Fall On The Farm The Old Church House Storm Is Coming Stormy Barn Pensacola Pier Moody Ocean Clouds The Old Barn At Sunset Cotton Candy Clouds Daddy’s Tractor In the...