by JL Jacobs | Jan 28, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Ice Storm by Nancy Shuler THE END OF A MOMENT In a breath, it ends. Just like that, gone. You watch it slip away, eyes wide, a lone tear streaking down your cheek. You raise a hand, as if to catch it, as if all you have to do is touch it and you will feel it...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 25, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Le rideau by Jerome Romain THE MOON WATER CASE Dusk coats a parched topography as I grab bucket and shovel and drive my Plymouth through The Vallis Alpes Valley that once flowed along a river’s lava curve. Fast-forward to the solidification of now, a throng of...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 23, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Nancy Shuler THE APOLLO NATIONAL PARK Earth-laden oceans burn his eyes blue as an employee blinks to regain his place before the customers-in-waiting who file like bugs into body-crevice security. A glass case encompasses Armstrong’s first footprint, serenity...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 18, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Waiting for the Story by Tony Rickaby TAKING THE PLEDGE I swear I swear off poetry More than an inveterate drunk Takes the oath, the pledge, promising to Stop starting tomorrow I swear Just one more poem to slake a A thirst, grease a throat and unstop These...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 14, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Untitled by Guilherme Bergamini STILL. LIFE. Oil on Canvas Mother and son: ages 64 and 37. The mother is a guidance counselor at Mount Hebron Middle School and the son is a software engineer out in Sussex county; the mother is just over 5 feet with...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 11, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Elina Ghanbari THE CLEANING LADY like a phantom Mr. Clean she came over once every two weeks, polished the old creaking parquet, swept the dust off the foreign fiction, scrubbed the sink, changed the sheets, placed chocolates on my pillow and along with an...
