by JL Jacobs | Oct 11, 2023 | Art, Fiction, Short Fiction
Alluring Fascination Is This Enclosure Impenetrable by Todd Brugman Approaching Hysteria, Illinois This is the city in which time converges, an unstable zone where back then is now again as it will be soon. Everything crashes together, spume...
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 | 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...