by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Summer by Cynthia Yatchman Depression Isn’t Something That Should Be Kept Secret (But It Often Is) What I gave to the grassand space was neversundown shadowscurving and highupon the canopy No but I loitered there enjoyingthis grass quietly...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 4, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Warmth of Other Suns by GJ Gillespie Once More to the Lake The nervy swimmers The pinball darters Those refuged behind downed oaks The skimmers gill breathers fin slappers The shapeless undulaters The graduates of Arthur...
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 | Apr 5, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Purple Noise by Andrea Damic On Aspen Tree “The pain was what it was. Beyond it there was nothing to say… If someone wanted to impart physical pain,he would be forced to inflict and thereby become a torturer himself.”—Jean Améry I feel...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 12, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Veil between Lives by Eric Chamberlain Before the Fall Falls fed by rivers, arteries to the earth,have a way of coupling countries, collecting cultures of people weaving space.The Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall placement, purple-fluorescent...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 21, 2024 | Art, Poetry
a change is gonna come by Gary Frier SOMEWHERE NOWHERE Don’t shop for a poem. There are no cage-raised or certified organic inscriptions like on a carton of eggs. No aisles to saunter & purchase a washing powder poem. Or a verse for...