by JL Jacobs | Feb 19, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Silence by Amna Urooj, @art.amna WHAT THERE IS OF EARTH 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...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 14, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto TRUST FALL 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 | Feb 12, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Water World III by Linda Chapman FREQUENCY MODULATION 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...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 9, 2018 | Poetry
Art: The Refuge of Hades by Joe Papagoda, @papagoda MESTASTIANITY Cancer has its own rituals. The way smoke rises, ordered, three inches the diverges, spreads through airstream. Waking up to consider the options—getting out of bed, suicide. Oversensitivity. A lump,...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nikosono, @zebranude STAR SPANGLED MEXICAN “Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” Sgt. Major Dan Daly You are the exterminators. We are the cockroaches. You can shoo us. Step on us. Spray poison in the air. Chase us out. Build a higher wall....
by JL Jacobs | Jan 31, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Thomas Kräher, @tkraeher. 33 SENTENTIOUS EPIGRAPHS THAT MAY – OR NOT – PROMPT A POEM The purpose of writing poems is to save epigraphs. – Kay Ryan In the beginning, God. * What’s a twist of...
