by JL Jacobs | Aug 27, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Descending Vine, Stream by Léni Paquet-Morante I found (a better) cure to growing older TW/CW for the piece: Allegories/Imagery related to cheating, self-harm/suicide, Mention of victim-blaming/dehumanizing language Don’t be the daughter of...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 20, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Collage, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Untitled by Lilyan Aloma In A Family Way My granddaughter Isla tried to say Grandmawhen she was a child, a word that emerged as Bambi:I wonder what names her child will later bestowon my daughter and me. In Canada, six generationsin an unbroken line of...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 2, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Herald Angel by Eric Chamberlain Bruise of Waitness I can’t talk of grief alonebut the faint smell of lonelinessbrow of air too knows your namewhat is the colour of time stippledto languagelessness. I am translationof it within the knot of void. As...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 26, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
Anatomy of Shadows by Bette Ridgeway Having Never Been Here Before, You Arrive Having never been here before, you arriveat the architect’s complex— the serpentine of clean-cut buildings....
by JL Jacobs | Jun 20, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry and Painting
#3003 by Ellen June Wright The Minotaur sits chained to the floor in the heart of the labyrinth listening for the timorous tread of fourteenvirgins. Every nine years, they’re delivered to him to feast upon as a punishment to Athens, andfeast he does in a...
by JL Jacobs | May 16, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
A Quiet Moment by Edward Michael Supranowicz Public Transit Tactile dream. Antipodal home. Night scream.Preposterous ruse. Rapid prance. Partial truth.Hangdog season. Lurid romance. Justice won.Popular god. Word internalized. River crossed.Time...