by JL Jacobs | Jun 7, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: What We Don’t See by Jimmy McHugh Dream Blue Deep blue midnight blue.Once in a blue moon. Driving a long blue vanthrough a deep blue sea. The steering wheel popsout in my hand, this longblue van crashing crashing. Cold cold...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 1, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Bioluminescence by Alex & Christy Ramirez What I Want look,I will tell you tell you like it really is—I want to see your eyes go round ‘n’ roundin circles of astonishmentI want to hear you shout: O my lord!O my god! yes! yes! yes! like...
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, Poetry
Algae on Turning Water by Leni 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...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 16, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Untitled by John Gregory Brown After the Troubadour We play like children scribbling chalk;vibrant pastel glyphs vanish in afternoonrain. I was unopened, a letterfull of news waiting formy seal to be slit, a bedtime story pressedlike the scent of...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 3, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Foundwork by Zachary McRae The Last Born in Volatility I cut my knuckledisassembling his criband sadness rushed meand all my indecisions,this being the lastof the baby stuffstacking up in the garage. Days later, wife’s questionstill unanswered, I...