by JL Jacobs | Sep 24, 2017 | Poetry, Poetry and Article, Rivera
Art: Nathalie von Arx fuckinmuse: a journey into collaboration (therefore, also into a True Love story in Love Jungle)1 Thylias Moss Emily Dickinson had her Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and I have my Thomas Robert Higginson2, a man, poet himself, who became my muse. In...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 18, 2017 | Art, Poetry
Art: “The Ocean Odyssey” by Joe Papagoda, @papagoda IN TRANSIT: MONOCHROME STUDY (mixed media) A shepherd cedes ground to cottages within the bracken Wild geese flesh the sky and the sea – whispers names salts our wounds speaks to the dead Days...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2017 | Fiction, Goncalves
Art: André Gonçalves, @andre_goncalves_arts GENETICS Your eyes are big and round like your father’s but while his are the color of the Irish Sea yours are the color of the muddy fields on my father’s land fit only for the peasants who worked them. ...
by JL Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Short Fiction
Art Credit: “Pai que estais no Ceu, by Vera Fonseca DIRTY DEALS WITH DICTATORS It’s now a crime in Utah to harass cattle with drones. The really strange thing is that no one thought this was strange. They want to see the trapeze artist fall and the lion tamer...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 28, 2017 | Goncalves, Short Fiction
Art Credit: Andre Gonçalves MOTHER METH I joined a volunteer project and was asked to remove furniture from an abandoned home. But I didn’t expect tales of occupants made for a messy cable movie. A mother of four strung out on meth having sex parties to pay for her...