by JL Jacobs | Apr 12, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Clockwork 7 by Waters Breedlove THE PHOTOGRAPH It doesn’t matter what we should have argued about. Talking was something we couldn’t or wouldn’t do. We walked through a meadow instead, you slightly ahead and I taking pictures of things I wanted to remember,...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 10, 2019 | Poetry and Article
Art: Streets in Cagne by Chaim Soutine FINGERPRINTS ON OCEAN WAVES: SOUTINE ADN THE FURIOUS DANCE OF THE STILL LIFE Why I Am Not a Painter I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, Mike...
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...
![Upon Discovering a Floating Corpse [Shawl] in the Rio by Jonathan Andrew Pérez](https://abstractmagazinetv.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The_Alpha_wolf_2017_mixed_media_on_canvas_47_x_63_in-1-1080x675.jpg)
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...
