by JL Jacobs | May 16, 2023 | Art, Poetry
Art: Pink Leaf 2 by John Gregory Brown Hope like Wildflowers I count my hope like wildflowers on my patio in Baytown, where I believe the wilderness is coming back in riotous flashes of color against the sky’s hue of haze—the beebalm’s pink, a smile in a...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 27, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Lake Dock 2 by John Gregory Brown The Burning House of God I was traveling in broad daylight to the darkest parts of a forest by the sea. The airbnb full of elder cousins had become too much to bear after too much champagne. The road had no...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 20, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Art: Yellow Leaf 6 by John Gregory Brown Yosemite Triptych Chiming waves chant my name in a lost language Lake of dreaming clouds Lake of shining rocks The lightning of wings sparks unaccountable memories * * * Mountains veil...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 16, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Untitled by John Gregory Brown After the Troubadour We play like children scribbling chalk;vibrant pastel glyphs vanish in afternoonrain. I was unopened, a letterfull of news waiting formy seal to be slit, a bedtime story pressedlike the scent of...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 16, 2022 | Art, Poetry
Pontchartrain by John Gregory Brown Lost in Translations When I plunge into the water, velcro lungs humand the island quivers all the way to Etna. Three yearsof gentle slumber later, the volcano coughs fistfuls of ashthat glide into the...