The fourth day into February and it looks a lot like its January predecessors. The forecast is for more snow. Already some one from an event tomorrow is wondering whether it will be a snow day, maybe counting on it. Today’s Guest Blog is by Daniel Cleary. I was taken with his poem “More Snow” – he posted it on FB a couple of days ago. I don’t usually go for rhymed poetry unless it is subtle and natural, and I think this poem is. In the comments section of his post, Daniel … [Read more...]
Guest Blog: Daniel Cleary “More Snow”
More Snow The snow, the snow, the silent snow Comes down & piles up all around In seamless drifts & (as we go) Covers up every inch of ground. It dances lightly in the air & weaves & wavers as it falls. Softly alighting here & there It drapes the trees in lacy shawls Till all that’s left for miles to view Are pallid prospects, greying skies & scenes of such a nameless hue They act like anodyne on the eyes. Grey interwoven into … [Read more...]
Glimpse of Solace: Snowflakes
Deep freeze
This week the weather is miserably cold in Chicago. Schools and businesses are closed. Anyone who can hibernate is hibernating. I am happy to feature photographs by a new contributor: Kevin Nance. If you recognize his name, it may be because you read his reviews in the Chicago Tribune, or his contributions to Poets & Writers and other publications. That's how I knew him. But then through posts on FB and Linked-in, I saw his photographs and admired them. Now I follow … [Read more...]
Hug it out
Today I am happy to post "The Kiss-Me-Quick," a story by Rochelle Distelheim, which I first fell for when it appeared in the Visiting Hours anthology put out by Press 53. I'm happy to say that Rochelle and I are in the same writing group so I have had the privilege of reading her work for some years now. It's been enough years that I have read her novel Jerusalem As a Second Language, witnessed how it was crafted to win the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative … [Read more...]
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