by JL Jacobs | Mar 26, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto HOLY CANDLE BLUES In the red-sweet sunsetangel brother bent his blown glass ear over the wall of eternity listening in on my restless rathouse jam.She entered peeling story-caked walls riding lightning rod brooms swept me out to...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 23, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Mountains by Baptiste Charruyer, Paris, @wild_fangs_photos TEN THOUSAND WINTERS BEFORE WRITTEN WORDS “Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems.” –Walt Whitman Ten thousand winters before written words when rousing...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 19, 2018 | Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: Sasan Golbostani, @sasan_golbostani A THIEF AT 9 Unchained, I Saw the bicycle Standing there. And the sliver spoke, Take. About the author: Paweł Grajnert is a writer/filmmaker who works in the US and Poland. His work has screened at the Venice Film...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 16, 2018 | Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: Two Men Sitting (Peter and Mehmet) by Gianluigi di Napoli, @gianluigidinapoli TO BE PREPARED __________________________________________________________________ About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he...
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,...