by JL Jacobs | Oct 13, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Olivier Fonteau, @olivierfonteau.art. ARROWHEADS You asked me, my poet friend, why my lines Are arrowheads. Well, I’m from the tropics Where the Tainos left their skulls filled With maggots at the entrances of mines. Their arrows were poems written in the...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Olivier Fonteau, @olivierfonteau.art SAND I’ve searched for my father’s face in the sand. You raised your left arm. A fine veil of golden Sand on your forearm. You smiled, and sang A song about stones & bones, or bony like stones. You moved. A cascade of sand...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry
Art: from the Connection Series by C.A.T aka Chaos and Thread, @chaosandthread CONTOUR I removed chastity from my brain Allowing my mind free range. Foraging, I surrender to my true love, erudition. It hasn’t been easy, the rigor of flipping Pages, venturing cultural...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry
Art: from the Connection Series by C.A.T aka Chaos and Thread, @chaosandthread CONSIDER If a guitar’s string is broken, someone must Have busted it. If a face is swollen and bruised, Someone like a Muhammad Ali or Joe Louis, With fists like hammers must have pounded...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry
Art: from the Connection Series by C.A.T aka Chaos and Thread, @chaosandthread CONTORTION I had a nightmare again. I found myself In the company of the undead, cavorting In synchrony to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Shuffling in lockstep. A carnival of ghouls. Dancing...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 4, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Thomas Kräher, @tkraeher WHERE YOU GET LOST OR GO ASTRAY Walking among the city buildings they turning into trees and the memory of trees I think building-less thoughts half-philosophical, half-recuperative: where you get lost or go astray where you court madness...
