by JL Jacobs | Oct 2, 2024 | Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Monterosso by Charles Bryne Cape Alava Your feet sink progressively deeper into the sandAs the sun climbs and the weight of your backpackSlows your stride to a plodding shuffle. It was firm and wet when you set out, as the tideReceded from the...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 28, 2024 | Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Photography by Nikolas Karathanasis SWINDLED & BEWILDERED Lincoln Way Storage, Unit #286, June 2018) Gone: The mantel clock stepfather carved for each of my siblings. A hippo collection hand-paintedby my nephew in stripes and polka dots inspired by...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 9, 2024 | Art, Art Feature, Photography, Sculpture
Untitled sculpture by Amalia Galdona Broche Memory Altars The sculptures materialize a psychological landscape of otherness and memory crisis. As a child of the Cuban Revolution during the Special Period, a time of extreme economic adversity, I...
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 | Jun 19, 2024 | Fiction, Photography, Photography, Lifestyle and Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Bleak by Jiayi Ji A Sudden Passion It was the memorial for his father, a tedious, even boringly arranged affair which, in its paint-by- numbers planning and total lack of the unforeseen—so anticipated and prepared for had been the death itself—was...
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,...
