by JL Jacobs | Jan 25, 2024 | Art, Poetry
Art by Peter Bethanis Head Growth My head popped off as I brushed my teeth. “You brush too hard. I’m rolling away to find agentler owner,” my head barked up from my bathroom floor. After I walked into three street poles, I stumbled bloody into work where...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 8, 2019 | Poetry
Art: La révérence, huile sur toile by Jérôme Romain NASA TEST SUBJECT Magic Transistor, NASA, Spacesuit Tests, 1960s Etch A Sketch an astronaut,sheathed by a spacesuit’s anonymity, standing before a camera capturing the still-frame stirrings of a man in pressurized...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 25, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Le rideau by Jerome Romain THE MOON WATER CASE Dusk coats a parched topography as I grab bucket and shovel and drive my Plymouth through The Vallis Alpes Valley that once flowed along a river’s lava curve. Fast-forward to the solidification of now, a throng of...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 23, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Nancy Shuler THE APOLLO NATIONAL PARK Earth-laden oceans burn his eyes blue as an employee blinks to regain his place before the customers-in-waiting who file like bugs into body-crevice security. A glass case encompasses Armstrong’s first footprint, serenity...
by JL Jacobs | Nov 28, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Luna by Mary Hanrahan MOON TRASH A trash man skids to a stop. The colonizers hired him to feed relics into a mouth of metal teeth, slicing the past like his grandfather’s serrated knife skinning a rabbit in Lake Cadillac country. 70 rovers, modules, crashed...
