by JL Jacobs | Nov 15, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Philip A. Zimmerman, @philip.a.zimmermann ENVY In my dream, I walk as Scott Momaday rocks beneath boots, beside a stream The breeze’s bite – winter’s presage My voice pours the poet’s baritone paints tropes – pine green the stream’s icy...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 1, 2017 | Goncalves, Poetry
Art: André Gonçalves, @andre_goncalves_arts C.D. WRIGHT, SHALLCROSS Who will be the author? Speak for and to and with. What did I miss? Reeling, with remedy. A subject of big hands. Self-portrait, ibid. Taxonomy. This body an ocean. Relentless. Intimate, charged. How...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 1, 2017 | Goncalves, Poetry
Art: Alexandra Bath by André Gonçalves, @andre_goncalves_arts THE GLASS AS HALF 1 Being alive in the moment and the moment to come. The drinking glass is a mind nourished on a facsimile of emptiness. The faucet sings one clear drip after another. The glass as half is...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 31, 2017 | Poetry
Art: William Zuback, @williamzubackphotographs PORTRAIT OF ANNA ZBOROWSKA, 1917 (AMADEO MODIGLIANI) Hard to miss me in a crowd or anywhere else with my long neck and longer face frowning mouth and eyebrows black eyes too dark for others to see in too dark for me to...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 26, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Cyril Larvor, @cyrillarvor RECIPE FOR A BETTER WORLD Don’t you know the difference between a potato and a lion? That’s odd. They put lions on pajamas but not potatoes. You’ll never see potatoes on your brother’s pajamas. Lions roar. Lions are not called spuds....
by JL Jacobs | Oct 25, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “CiGar Web” by Ferrandis Issaev, @ferrandisissaev 2029 AT THE LATEST My guardian won’t let me out to play. She told me to amuse myself in my room. She doesn’t want me to get wet. She’s afraid the neighbor’s dog might bite. I have some games I can play...
