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...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 9, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Conversations about the Dance by Gerburg Garmann ODE TO CR AND TS: A SURREALIST ELEGY About the author: Abraheem Dittu is a Pakistani-American poet from Los Angeles. He’s previously been published in The Blue Door Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, Flypaper...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 2, 2019 | Photography, Poetry
Art: Photography by Marie Dashkova Hummingbirds I remember reading recently of how hummingbirds only suckle from lilac and lavender blooms for their fuel, their nectarous urge merely the gruel a weary, calloused farmhand might sock away, mopping a soaked and furrowed...
