by JL Jacobs | Mar 12, 2018 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: Rafano by Rebecca Weaver, @legsweaver IN THE SPRING OF IT Grass so high it’s up to the chest and mounting; you think another few steps you’ll be just a head bobbing on a sea of green.Thick as wading through a bog, the spears wrapping onto legs, entangling...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 9, 2018 | Art, Poetry
Art: Karen Hill, @karenhill_images TENURE About the Author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 5, 2018 | Art, Film, Poetry
Art: Photography by Sasan Golbostani, @sasan_golbostani THE CHAPEL AT LA CONQUISTADORA Santa Fe, NM: Terrifying crucifixion statue: skinny Jesus, bloody, sliced up, flesh hanging from the open wounds, head tilted slightly to the right, mouth hanging open, eyes glassy....
by JL Jacobs | Mar 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Photography by Alison Prine KINSHIP WITH INSTINCTS Finding citing vivid insights tiring I’m idling, childish, in hiding, minding swirling birds girding virgin birch, flirting in whirlwind skirmishings, chirping birthrights within this singing, fix’d in strict...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 28, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Pedrera Steps II by Linda Chapman AN UNEXAMINED LIFE “An unexamined life is not worth living.” –Socrates Who’d seek to deduce truly unique views? You’d need to refuse routines, to renew youthful curiosity’s urgency to fully see...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 21, 2018 | Photography, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: Photography by Alison Prine NEVER THE DISTANCE Just after the embarrassment of being young comes the embarrassment of aging. And in between – pelted with questions – you try to say yes. You try to take someone in your arms and want them. I let apples rot in the...
