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 | Sep 5, 2024 | Art, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Container of dreams by Natalie Christensen Goody-Two-Shoes Aren’t we setting the bar for virtuea tad low here? I’m glad that was never your style—chatting about Boston, cow-tippings in Austin,how you need your café au lait before you write a...
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 | 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 | 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,...
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...