by JL Jacobs | Jan 23, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Painting, Prose, Short Fiction
A Lone Tree Below Mt. Whitney by Kathleen Frank Sunshine Pie was originally published in the January 29, 2021 online edition of Everyday Fiction. Sunshine Pie “It’s left foot forward and two steps back.” Cecily looks at her feet. She’s six and a...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 11, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Hawk Country by Nicholas Kriefall Homage to Pythagoras as a child outlines shadows with chalk-stonecomes harp strings raining liquid musicwithin the music of musicreed pipes are birds rising up to birdsin the trees night sky is a blue notebook of divinity of...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 20, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Dream de Menthe by Eric Chamberlain The Shearing of the Stag The definition of God is a mosaic; a temple of colour; the blue notes of white holes soliloquously rhapsodising a voyage of forget-me-nots, as we linger on the threshold of infinities of time....
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 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 | 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 ...