by JL Jacobs | Nov 7, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Mtandao wa Kijani wa Kwaku Ananse by Mick Ó Seasnáin SUMMER DAY AT HUNTINGTON BEACH I tick with alarm clock worry. My sister is afraid of nothing. Not the dark or death or Jay Preslan down the street who pushes kids in front of cars. Look at her run into...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 5, 2018 | Poetry
Art: from Glow Series by Ken Collins MARY’S MOONBEAMS We steamroll into the bustle, Father and son bedazzled alongside bakers and housewives clamoring for a collective spectacle by ‘The Diving Horse’ show. The animal splashes into a pool as I drop two Buffalo...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: 10:00am – Shedd Aquarium from 17 photographs in 10 hours, in Chicago, Illinois by Nicola Olic –in response to the poem: “If you See something, Say Something”, a collaboration with my Thing, Mr. Bob Holman “IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 29, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Balloon from Daily Magnificence series by Çağrı Yılmaz CULVERT My unassuming heart became a valley amassing waters and debris; a vehicle for rain dashing down the sides in emergency free-fall. It isn’t true to say that the valley gloved the heart,...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 26, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Transformation (drypoint etch from the Primordial Geology edition of nine) by John Timothy Robinson CORMORANT The cormorant inside my head peers at the one in my heart. It shakes its beak, gestures with its wings that it’s time to open, to fly. The...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 24, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Song of the Spirits Over the Waters by Jolanda Richter THE LAW OF IDENTITY I. A man mentions Ursa Major in his vows. Even though the night sky does not represent the future, but the past. Though, there are other meanings in a constellation that...
