by JL Jacobs | Sep 20, 2023 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: from Transitory Space, Nova Scotia, Canada, Tree Color Field #16 by Lean Oates Entre Nous We had long sought escapeamong the multicolored lightsof the inked city,in the understory of the unpaginated woods. But it wasn’t meant to be,no matter...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 23, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 2, 2023 | Art, Memoir, Photography
Art: Ghost Rain by Briarwood Bohemian Do-It-Yourself Death came for my mother three times, and twice she refused to go. It was dangerous to underestimate how fierce she could be. Lying just below that sweet powdered veneer was a wounded animal ready to...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 27, 2023 | Memoir, Photography
Art: Photography courtesy of Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions The following selection is from the book Road to Mound Grove by Betty B. Cantwell. Chapter Six THE STRANGER Olaree and I often played in the front yard by the chimney...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 4, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 28, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Bare Trees by William Zuback descent fear of frozen sunlit afternoons and broken glass, of the truth, of dying too young and of living past the...