by JL Jacobs | Oct 18, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Waterproof Skateboard Slippers by Andrew Abbott Chasing Claire de Lune Nick is forty and tries to capture the moon. Nightly, he reaches to the sky, but she darts betweenshimmering silver clouds. She drifts with ease. Teases. After...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 4, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
re-constructing a memory by Paris Sergiou This work originally appeared in Mount Island #5 in Summer, 2020. wing-borne/: flute aloft flute/ carved from the wing bone of a red-crowned crane/ nothing is isolated /; everything is a/ part but...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 20, 2023 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: from Transitory Space, Nova Scotia, Canada, Tree Color Field #16 by Lean Oates Entre Nous We had long sought escapeamong the multicolored lightsof the inked city,in the understory of the unpaginated woods. But it wasn’t meant to be,no matter...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 23, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: from Excavations series by Detlef Gotzens Change of Heart It’d make no differenceif you did or didn’t. I’m addressing a fly for the world’s been reduced to that–a self interest I cannot fault.But if you found...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 9, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: Contemplation by Alexey Adonin THE PIANO All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.Robert Hass, “Meditation at Lagunitas” I.I’m in a dwelling that does not existalthough here I am now in the dream—maybe an amalgam...