by JL Jacobs | Sep 20, 2023 | Art, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Art: from Transitory Space, Nova Scotia, Canada, Tree Color Field #16 by Lean Oates Entre Nous We had long sought escapeamong the multicolored lightsof the inked city,in the understory of the unpaginated woods. But it wasn’t meant to be,no matter...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 23, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: from Excavations series by Detlef Gotzens Change of Heart It’d make no differenceif you did or didn’t. I’m addressing a fly for the world’s been reduced to that–a self interest I cannot fault.But if you found...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 9, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: Contemplation by Alexey Adonin THE PIANO All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.Robert Hass, “Meditation at Lagunitas” I.I’m in a dwelling that does not existalthough here I am now in the dream—maybe an amalgam...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 4, 2023 | Art, Photography, Poetry
Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 21, 2023 | Memoir, Poetry
Art: Cotter Bridge, courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Cotter, Arkansas Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline...