by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: Marie Dashkova, Photographer INCANTATION The bones are mine and the cookie cutters are mine and ripe smell of the compost is mine, and the dress curling at my ankles is mine. The tattoo of the shark, and the elephant static and electric whistles of...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Poetry
Art Credit: “Confusione” by Vivian Nimue Wood Valle d’ Aosta SONG FOR LARD I sing for pig fat, for leaf lard, fatback, caul fat, for the small white icebergs my grandmother dropped into a black iron skillet she never washed, only swiped with newsprint and put on the...
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...
