by JL Jacobs | Oct 4, 2019 | Poetry
Ministration Take a fingertip of fire to a thread of magnesium and watch the messiah himself spring from the coil brighter than any welder’s torch that fuses a seam between the arm and body of a tin man army not yet buried with its emperor but standing...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 2, 2019 | Poetry
Equilibrium A flower against the harsh inertia bathing in Hades’ dim light uncaring motion, as transformation dwindles spoons of sun, with eager drip an exquisite undertaking, falling with all the weight of your limbs It is risky to be a human being it...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 25, 2019 | Poetry
Ohio Drinking red wine in a peeling canoe, land-bound, by the drained swimming pool. The leaves watched as we turned to run. Our plan was to break the glass, take the fancy heirloom. You talked me down with a shy glance. Later, we huddled in the flooded basement,...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 20, 2019 | Poetry
THE WAY OF ALL : AN ABECEDARIAN April is not about you, grasshopper. Bear your soul in a month more claustrophobic, when you’re shut up, defeated by weeks of winter skies— egg-colored—not Easter-egg-colored. Fires in bleak pre-dawn hearths glow from the...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 12, 2019 | Poetry
The Story Was Always Architectural ...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 9, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Follow the Light by Fabrice Poussin The Sun We built a nest of books and blocks and threw the windows wide. In the yard beyond the wall that holds the street at bay, in an overhang of oleander, the sun, its orange banner waving, calls her out to...
