By George McDermott
History in G Major Maybe you heard them decades ago clarinet guitar and bass folk song lilt in jazz progressions echoes of melodies telling stories and maybe you’ve seen the railroad station the archangel nearly thirty feet tall standing amid Corinthian columns and lifting up a fallen soldier backlit by the morning streaming through the wall of four-story windows maybe you boarded the train to New York followed the tracks northeast from the station curving along the western bank then crossing the bridge artists have painted crossing the river next to the zoo maybe you’ve known the train and the river and maybe the music has stuck like a lesson a monument to the fragile notion that history is something to know and knowing things is something to do
George McDermott is an English teacher, speechwriter, and screenwriter. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Painted Bride Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Saw Palm, and his chapbook—Pictures, Some of Them Moving—was a winner of the Moonstone Chapbook Award. He is also co-author of What Went Right, a nonfiction book about the successes and missteps of public education in the United States.
Louis Staeble, fine arts photographer and poet, lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in “Blue Hour”, “Cenacle”, “Clever Fox” “Conclave Journal”, “Elsewhere Magazine”, “GFT Magazine”, “Fifth Wednesday Journal”, “Four Ties Literary Review”, “Goatsmilk Magazine”, “Havik”, “Inklette”, “Light- A Journal”, “Little Somethings Press”, “Olney Magazine”, “Rubbertop Magazine”, “Sunspot Lit”, “The Helix”, ”Tupelo Quarterly”, “Twist In Time” and “Windmill”. 2016, 2017 and 2018 as part of the Wood County Invitational. Instagram@louiestaeble Web page: staeblestudioa.weebly.com