by JL Jacobs | Jun 13, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Through the Looking Glasses by Rebecca Oet OVERHEARD As evening sneaks around the house, the ironing board and kitchen sink gossip about your first kiss. Inexplicable – how they understand the intimacy of wind-brushed clouds; how, in this chartreuse spring,...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 11, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Alison Prine WHAT I KNOW OF “GOOD” Bad things are going to happen. – Ellen Bass, “Relax” Perennials return without a thought and so do volunteers from maples and japonica. Nature recruits another nursery at no extra cost. Lab tests...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 6, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Auto-Rotation by W. Jack Savage ZEP Michael is playing air guitar, bebopping by himself miles behind me in the baking sun that refuses to shine on him because he sees only the shadows and not the blooming Colza on the yellow hills or the blue peaks stretched out...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 4, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Alexander Wagentristl, @elekrocher A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH A cry into the world One out Sliding in sliding out Faces behind the glass A naming An identification given The answer yes The statement no A blue blanket Yellow tape Liquid flowing down Pain...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 1, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Heaven by Judith Skillman FOR Shoved into a morning with the cold sigh of someone rusted by responsibility and its constraints, There could be no way to silence the spirited cluster of a station angrily juvenile in its disquiet. Cirrus hangs like salmon on a...
by JL Jacobs | May 28, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Winter Concert – Winter Music – 22 Shortest Pieces by Federico Federici SCAFFOLDING διὰ τῆς μείζονος καὶ τελειοτέρας σκηνῆς listen everywhere as our great-great-great-grandmothers recall at each circle of the city, at every laugh of the family room, & at each...
