by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Painting, Poetry
My Neighborhood by Hyewon Cho Borders Just as our pigment was a barrier, so was my father’s education, and we lived in the shadow between two trees. For many years, we were the only dark faces in the neighborhood, embraced by some, shunned by...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 2, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Untitled 3 6.34” x 6.34” mixed media on found wood Makes You Happy When I was coming up my mama and daddygot their groove every Saturday night listening to some Earth Wind and Fire and Al Green.Have you ever seen old people listen to Al Green?It’s...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Summer by Cynthia Yatchman Depression Isn’t Something That Should Be Kept Secret (But It Often Is) What I gave to the grassand space was neversundown shadowscurving and highupon the canopy No but I loitered there enjoyingthis grass quietly...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 22, 2023 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Art: Low Ice Abbott Marshland by Léni Paquet-Morante The Singing River After John Waller (1878) summer—by the river:the singing river, down the streambeneath droopingwillow’s shade, moaning,murmuring watersdark and chill, the sighing;on...
by JL Jacobs | May 25, 2022 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
IDENTITY The entire past up for grabs! Who are we but our memories of the past? Yet the “experts” tell us that what we think We remember about our pasts is fantastical, Mostly untrue, mostly false, mostly invented As we grope along...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 27, 2022 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Algae on Turning Water by Léni Paquet-Morante STRAIGHT-UP Broken and can’t be fixed— like chronically late: — Stuck in-a-traffic jam …you may say. Or: — Just one more before we leave, — A roadie, as they say. And since one’s never enough, when is enough...
