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...
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,...
