by JL Jacobs | Dec 11, 2025 | Art, Nature, Photography, Photography, Art and Lifestyle, Poetry, Poetry and Photography
Untitled by Cyril Larvor The Above-Ground Pool for Jennifer Was at first splash, a dream of wealth.We felt like Illinois millionaires, goingOutside whenever we wanted to, to sipBud Light and stay on an interminableinnertube all day long in...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 23, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art by Cyril Larvor Sister Okay, I whisper, baby Sister,don’t open your eyes.Keep dreaming,snug the drawstrings tight.Throats and binding,uppers and quarters lining,dream. This is your time. Lights bowed to your presence,audience aghast.Stumble across the...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 3, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art by Cyril Larvor Singing Tibetan Bowl We were at the Princeton University Campus, racing to class through the quad. I spotted you ahead on the sidewalk, in your fast lane. You were a bright red Corvette of a man, speeding one hundred and twenty miles...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 3, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art by Cyril Larvor Recess You are not a child anymore, though you are approaching Recess, a rooftop bar, with an architect and a friend of his named Moe. Recess has a pool, that’s the gimmick—illuminated, sparkling, a liquid jewel, but no one...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 17, 2021 | Art, Poetry
Art by: Cyril Larvor Red Rock, Salvation Honey pot cosmos, killer bee missiles writing a poetics of space on wet-flecked tongues— do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior? In Illinois, a statue of the Blessed...