by JL Jacobs | Mar 11, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Red River Bridge by Nancy Shuler IN THE CLOCK ROOM AT THE RAILROAD MUSEUM Tinkering tick-tockers all: These are history’s duplicitous faces. These are Observer, Arcade No. 1, Lobby Clock, once proud to condescend every train. And these old teachers,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 8, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Peeking Through a Window by Caitlin Carter THE ROOMING HOUSE Katya was living in a dilapidated rooming house, in a decaying part of Chicago. At one time this house had been her home. The people who lived there were happy and used her establishment every time they...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 6, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Shaman by Caitlin Carter ODE TO THE LADY IN HERMANN PARK She’s got the spirit in her Standing with her worldly belongings in two chairs More powerful than Macbeth’s trio Screaming her magic to the sky Its beat hammering go go go to the Elf King’s art. Spiritless,...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 4, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: shapes2 by Nathan Johnson THE BUM STEER The Bum Steer is a bar tucked in a strip mall parking lot off a country road only a few miles from civilization. Light years. Decades. Enough distance and time hollowed from the living to melt reality when you walk...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 1, 2019 | Poetry
Art: 3:06 pm John Hancock Center from 17 Chicago Photographs in 10 Hours by Nikola Olic TOUCH Think of it as deft spring winds passing through full-blown lindens, leaves shuddering, tentative as love’s sweet-talk, made almost breathless, if spoken, or what fades into...
