by JL Jacobs | Feb 19, 2020 | Poetry
DRY DOCK Luciano sits at the bar—he always sits at the bar—watching over his crew like a ship’s captain. The bartender, Ian, has already placed a glass of Chianti at his right hand. Tonight, from his wheelhouse, Luciano sips his red wine as he watches the cooks in the...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 19, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Torment by Robert Ferrier Chore She couldn’t say who closed off from whom, or when the tangle of bright forsythia at the side of the house thickened to impassable. There is a cry in the cold engine. And a cry in the hairdryer behind the bathroom door. A cry in...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 17, 2019 | Poetry
Art: The day after 13 Nov. 2015, Paris 11ème by Boré Ivanoff An Un-useful Witness Through the car window I saw them load a man onto a gurney after they carried him out of the encampment. I had not seen the incident, or observed the precipitating factors. I was on my...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 15, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Alison Prine Summer Again when we turn away and busy ourselves we forget the sky when the sky is forgotten, it stretches past the edge when the edge recedes clouds tint to red when clouds tint I feel a nearness, as if we have spoken when we have spoken it seems a...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 15, 2019 | Music
Art: Photography by Alison Prine 3 GROUPS (2008) CHAMBER ORCHESTRA About the author: The creative output of Anthony R. Green (composer, performer, social justice) includes musical and visual creations, interpretations of original works or works in the repertoire,...