by JL Jacobs | Apr 12, 2017 | Poetry and Article
FLASH FICTION: BRIEF AND (LIKELY) NECESSARY LITERATURE Alfred Polgar, a noted Viennese intellectual and master of the short form, makes a good case for the rising popularity and even necessity of modern-day flash fiction when he said during his own lifetime...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 24, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “The Battle” by David Conison ABSQUATULATION morning break steam from a cup of tea The Lark Ascending The prop I use for my PC screen is a venerable English-German dictionary, vintage 1870, source of scholarship then, now pedantry. Once,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 24, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Rizwan Ali MELTDOWN nights drawing in drops of melted wax form stalagmites The anticipated power cut. Office closed at four, as every day the past six weeks. Trams not running, she walks to the crèche to pick up her baby boy. To get home needs to take a...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 17, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Monotonic Tresinence” by Christopher Alexander VazQuez THE COLONIES We have been right from the beginning. but in the wrong way. The gods did come from the heavens, but they were not more glorious versions of ourselves. They were the microbes...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 17, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Kyrgyz Flock” by James Metelak Haibun by Jim Kacian no thing is what it seems, all words are slightly wrong . . . a freeble silted stream melandering by the farm might be Borges’ unnamed river of croglodytes and immortunity . . ....
by JL Jacobs | Dec 3, 2016 | Poetry
About the Author: Devon Balwit is a poet and educator from Portland, Oregon. She has a chapbook, Forms Most Marvelous, forthcoming from dancing girl press (summer 2017). Her recent poems have appeared in numerous print/on-line journals, among them: Oyez, Red Paint...
