Skiff Hill
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In this issue, Erika Veurink takes us on a tragic, and perhaps painfully humorous, first date with two people whose interest in each other simply don’t match in “Five Hours Ahead.”
Diane Payne recounts ways isolation makes simple trips to the dentist or the grocery fraught in the short essay “The New You.”
And Ralph Sneeden asks, “Where is the middle / distance of history” in four poems beginning with “Skiff Hill.” These poems are excerpted from Sneeden’s forthcoming collection, Surface Fugue, available in November from EastOver Press.
The images in this issue are from a 1921 illustrated guide to figure skating by Swedish skating champion Bror Myer.
These images are from a 1921 illustrated guide to figure skating by Bror Myer, a Swedish skating champion. Meyer felt the guide necessary as in “latter years the art of skating has made such rapid strides.” On his use of photography, he said: “To facilitate an easy interpretation of the text, as well as to show more clearly the various movements, I decided, after great consideration, to illustrate the work by means of photographs taken with a Cinematograph.”
From Public Domain Review
