by JL Jacobs | Jun 5, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Boré Ivanoff PINE NUTS AT LUNCHTIME It was in the way of things That a casual sighting in a supermarket trolley In front of me of a packet of nuts And I was a girl again Delighting in that lunch-hour of freedom From sitting straight-backed, blank-eyed At...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 3, 2019 | Poetry
Art: A City for All by Aphrodite Lutz BEFORE THE PARTY It must have just stopped raining When we arrived. The road, licked for hours By the quiet slap of countless passing tyres, Gleamed blackly under the streetlamps Like wet liquorice. We sat for a moment Watching...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 1, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Cyril Larvor WHAT WAS In the kitchen I stand Tracksuit-clad and blinking As the click of the front door shuts The sounds of the day away. I snuff the gas And the subterranean gurgling fades to naught As, like a latter-day suburban witch Leaning over her...
by JL Jacobs | May 29, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Feux d Artifice sur Canal Saint-Martin, Paris by Boré Ivanoff GAMBLING THE AISLE An arm length this uproar from the sea in an urgent need of an operation, crabs climb out and at first glance seeming the ruddy attendants to modify the then-yellow lacquer, their...
by JL Jacobs | May 24, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Conflicted by Robert Ferrier NO SPACE, NO TIME Face it. The distance dissolves from Tom Jones to Tiago Hannah, the sun is cold & wet in Mopti. To bring about its areas such as Cape West in the offing, a request for the location, the basic values are its...
by JL Jacobs | May 20, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Big wave from drone view by Gwendolyn Pryor OVERTURE He does a twinkle on the piano. Opens his mouth, lets go a high note. Loudest one he can muster, it lasts and lasts and lasts. His note, his breath morphs into ribbons of wind. Ribbons swirl, brush against the...
