Summertime Snapshots (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Summer is almost here. What are your favorite things about the season?] I can see them already…               …those scenes that flow                               throughout the course                                           of an entire season… Chilly ocean waves swish as they chase        after wiggly toes                                         across vast beaches                       while seagulls cry

Remembered Places (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: I’ve been nostalgic lately.] I came across a yellowed photograph   deep in the chest of my memories   wedged between childhood fantasies                     much like ships in bottles    and long-forgotten amusements               nostalgic as paper kites The picture depicted the beach     in a small town I had