by JL Jacobs | Jul 15, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Alison Prine Summer Again when we turn away and busy ourselves we forget the sky when the sky is forgotten, it stretches past the edge when the edge recedes clouds tint to red when clouds tint I feel a nearness, as if we have spoken when we have spoken it seems a...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 12, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Keeping Your Cloud Afloat by Frederick Nitsch Muse Forget daffodils – we poets have gardens full of narcissi, one drop of rain or dew and our shallow cups runneth over a mirrored mosaic on our neighbour’s drive. And what a buzz to find another...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 8, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Abstract by Alex Duensing FROM THE TEACHER Whatever it has been said we’ve been, those words shall be shifted in the hearts of others– as the bread of our days may be only as it’s always been: the nourishment of others; when they recollect us, they but...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 28, 2019 | Poetry
Art: The Red Stair by Linda Chapman STICKY FINGERSTheirs is a stately home Velvet papered wallpurple cushion plumped Can’t touch this Golden thread Needled too ornate,a flourish above and beyondShakespearean quote If music be the food of love Play...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 26, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Portal 26 by Ken Collins ANOTHER SHADE OF GRAY He hoped to hush the shrill, replace the clarion, the cock’s determined call more appealing, bound to raise a laugh, not to mention a couple of ghosts down the pub. Cacophony, Euphony, and he the moping...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 24, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Ekaterina Shamilova (Model: Marie Dashkova) THE CRUSHING OF COTTON BUTTERFLIES The bed smells of potted meat – and us – last night’s bland feast. You’re eyeing the jar even now, scrolling news-feed on your laptop, hard edge digging into my...
