by JL Jacobs | Jul 2, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Untitled 3 6.34” x 6.34” mixed media on found wood Makes You Happy When I was coming up my mama and daddygot their groove every Saturday night listening to some Earth Wind and Fire and Al Green.Have you ever seen old people listen to Al Green?It’s...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 28, 2024 | Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
From series “Transitory Space” Color field, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2015 by Leah Oates As Wildflowers I think I’ve found a cure for all the shamewe were taught to feel within our bodies:instead of flesh and bone, imagine this—a...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 25, 2024 | Art, Art and Painting, Painting, Poetry
Summer by Cynthia Yatchman Depression Isn’t Something That Should Be Kept Secret (But It Often Is) What I gave to the grassand space was neversundown shadowscurving and highupon the canopy No but I loitered there enjoyingthis grass quietly...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 4, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Warmth of Other Suns by GJ Gillespie Once More to the Lake The nervy swimmers The pinball darters Those refuged behind downed oaks The skimmers gill breathers fin slappers The shapeless undulaters The graduates of Arthur...
by JL Jacobs | May 28, 2024 | Lifestyle, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography, Prose
Snow on the Mountain by Rilla Askew Oklahoma Okla, “people” and humma, “red,” in Allen Wright’s Choctaw cognomenFor this heartland state where the Trail of Tears ended—not for CherokeesOnly, but for all Five Civilized Nations, for Sac and Fox,...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 5, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Purple Noise by Andrea Damic On Aspen Tree “The pain was what it was. Beyond it there was nothing to say… If someone wanted to impart physical pain,he would be forced to inflict and thereby become a torturer himself.”—Jean Améry I feel...
