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...
by JL Jacobs | May 25, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Popovy Sisters, @popovysisters INFANTILISM Neglecting kin, screen zombies eyeball pixels, lured by clickbait with violent headlines of some celeb getting slammed/destroyed/put on blast, apparently unperturbed by the fact that shade is something you sit in...
by JL Jacobs | May 23, 2018 | Poetry
Art: The Recruited Outtakes from Plastic People Series by Seigar, @jseigar EVERY WINDOW LEADS TO EDWARD HOPPER In my overheated apartment, I have on a red t-shirt that says One Word at a Time. I sit on a beige brocade couch, bare feet on woolen vines of my Chinese...