by JL Jacobs | Apr 3, 2019 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Art: Recurring Schemes by Daniel Smith WHAT THE TREES SAW Over two thousand miles, twenty cartons of cigarettes and an ocean of liquor lie between me and that place, yet I still can’t escape the Black Hills National Forest. Time has been fluid since that day in the...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 1, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Hollow Mountain by Caitlin Carter THE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ACT “Beauty Belongs to All The People”— Lyndon & Lady Bird Johnson Highway Beautification Act, 1965 Shady: (v.) beyond logic, bias of older, established trees i. Trucks pass, the first of that...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 29, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Portal #9 by Ken Collins GETTIN’ GONE I just got gone, but now I’m back again, though I’m in the process of gettin’ gone from gone and gettin’ on again. I’m on a train of gettin’ gone, but someone will have me back again right when I’ll be on gone...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 27, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Cosmographies by Alexis Avlamis UPON DISCOVERING A FLOATING CORPSE [SHAWL] IN THE RIO Families on the Rio Grande nestle in solitary ponds, tide low, bob-huts against the wind. Search in mud, wet up to the exposed fiddler crabs (pre-columbian before...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 25, 2019 | Poetry
Art by Marie Dashkova JUNIPER NIGHT: FOUR POEMS [su_row class=””] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] lone juniper dark itself spooked by scant light carving the barely gnarled trunk thrusting upward twisted into...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 22, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Photography by Robert L. Ferrier A PRIEST TO BELIEVE IN Drip by drip by drip, gravity bags bring near the final turning, and the mind turns to sin and soul and to a priest I can believe in. . . .What’s her name? What was her name? Sister—Sister Whatshername, who...