by JL Jacobs | Apr 18, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fish in Open Currents by Tobias Oggenfuss SPRING Spring is a tomboy all done up, an amazon and a unicorn intertwined, the reward after winter’s test, a fragile beauty in the end. About the author: Karol Nielsen is author of the memoir, Black Elephants (Bison...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 13, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Journey Within by Carolyn O’Neill, @carolynoneillartist AN INSECT’S DREAM OF HONEST CONCRETE So often there are blocks that give way to the arachnidian spires of wind-up basilicas and stretchered nuns who cry out pantomime Italian, Questo è tutto per...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 9, 2018 | Poetry
Art: État de transe sur Champs-Élysées, Publicis Drugstore, Paris 8 by Bore’ Ivanoff A SERIES OF POEMS I an earth that is not ours grows with no hair and requires a wig made of refrigerators to keep cool when the sun misses its curling iron if we beg for more...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 6, 2018 | Poetry
Art: IKEA Painting 7 by Alan Neider, @aneider52 #101: UNION CARD Quirky poets work this way connect point B to point A positing a perfect ineluctable poignance Nestling into handsome line a bird’s eye view of human kind So unfair this doesn’t pay card...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nikolas Karathanasis, @nikolas_k_photography TO THE GRAIL It is a symphony of feet in the midst of fireworks and lights; they come, they go, hesitate, return, turn around, and back; insane in their indecision, shoes of sports, and pumps of circumstance, molding...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 30, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Costumes from the Stratford Warehouse No. 23 by Chris Klein PHONAESTHETICS The study of the euphony and cacophony of words without regard for semantics. I read somewhere that language experts claim when sense is pushed aside, the most ear-pleasing English sounds...
