by JL Jacobs | Jan 2, 2019 | Photography, Poetry
Art: Photography by Marie Dashkova Hummingbirds I remember reading recently of how hummingbirds only suckle from lilac and lavender blooms for their fuel, their nectarous urge merely the gruel a weary, calloused farmhand might sock away, mopping a soaked and furrowed...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 26, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto HOLY CANDLE BLUES In the red-sweet sunsetangel brother bent his blown glass ear over the wall of eternity listening in on my restless rathouse jam.She entered peeling story-caked walls riding lightning rod brooms swept me out to...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 14, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto TRUST FALL About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals,...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 25, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto CHRISTMAS TREE the christmas tree represents unity meaning in this room we want each other blue lights intertwined with pines green and lust thus we hang our ornaments watch the tree shed its skin onto dog-dusty floor. there are hooks...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 30, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto THE TACTICAL UNIT’S SHARPSHOOTER MISSES HIS FIRST SHOT BUT NOT HIS SECOND Darkness obscures everything even my once luminous dreams, the man waving the gun above his head says as if reciting a poem to an audience of Martians. He...
