by JL Jacobs | Apr 27, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fabrice Poussin FIVE SETTINGS I have five settings In the morning, When I rise and my face falls to glorify my maker In the afternoon, When I lose all orientation, and question the purpose of my existence In the evening, When I covet my...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 20, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fabrice Poussin A CRISIS OF FAITH A woman shall be silent in church. She shall be submissive to her husband. Her skirt shall be no more than two inches above the knee. We girls stood in neat rows and held sour lemon drops of shame on our tongues. At day’s...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 2, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Nikolas Karathanasis, @nikolas_k_photography TO THE GRAIL It is a symphony of feet in the midst of fireworks and lights; they come, they go, hesitate, return, turn around, and back; insane in their indecision, shoes of sports, and pumps of circumstance, molding...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 24, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Fall by Fabrice Poussin SCENERY “When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world the babies just come with the scenery.” Chrissie Hynde – Middle of the Road snapshots of heaven spill out of the open wallet’s unfolding plastic inserts and in each...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 12, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Dimension by Fabrice Poussin LEONARD’S FLAT “You’ve got to accept the flat surface. Not try to pretend it’s not there.” David Hockney The flat like a gallery with all your artwork wall to wall, I wandered through it as if...
