by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 1842” by J. M. W. Turner TURNER IN HIS STUDIO Imagine his effort to be present, the years he spent training hand and eye to the qualia. How many times and with what determination did he tear himself from warm beds, grab...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “My Bowl is Full” by Riikka Fransila KABUKI LESSONS Japanese praise role-playing above all else. If the teacher acts like a teacher, and looks like a teacher, he is deemed to be a teacher. Dress the part. Polish your shoes. Students take their cue...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “Too Tired to Function” by Riikka Fransila HUMPTY DUMPTY The young, rich and poor, think Nintendo is superior to the Sistine Chapel. They admire Steve Jobs more than Michelangelo. If not that, then they are judged equally as artists, as creative...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “Great Wall and Mushroom Clouds, Run, Baby, Run” by Riikka Fransila THE ROTTWEILER NEXT DOOR The Rottweiler next door killed my wife’s pink Chihuahua, but spat out one ear. We planted its ear in our flower bed next to the foxgloves under 3 inches of...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “Amor” by Amparo Noguera A GEOLOGY based on First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, the first collected edition of 36 Shakespeare plays. Open under glass to Hamlet’s soliloquy, the...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 29, 2017 | Poetry
Art: “Ton hombre reste en moi” (“Shadow remains in me”) by Cyril Larvor aka Blackbird STRAITS OF BIRTHDAYS Given an unknown reservoir of time, measuring mist both fore and aft I dawdle rather than choosing to arrange one more pattern of shells...
