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...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 12, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Veil between Lives by Eric Chamberlain Before the Fall Falls fed by rivers, arteries to the earth,have a way of coupling countries, collecting cultures of people weaving space.The Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall placement, purple-fluorescent...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 21, 2024 | Art, Poetry
a change is gonna come by Gary Frier SOMEWHERE NOWHERE Don’t shop for a poem. There are no cage-raised or certified organic inscriptions like on a carton of eggs. No aisles to saunter & purchase a washing powder poem. Or a verse for...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 7, 2024 | Art, Poetry
The Gorge at Bicay from the collage series “Building Machines” by Spyridon Kaprinis Perseverance Lands on Mars & conflagrations candle all the anthrax that seeps into the streets but in the heart there is only violence enough to...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 25, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Art by Peter Bethanis Head Growth My head popped off as I brushed my teeth. “You brush too hard. I’m rolling away to find agentler owner,” my head barked up from my bathroom floor. After I walked into three street poles, I stumbled bloody into work where...