Nick Koveshnikov — The Monarch Review

Phantom Fraternity – Nick Koveshnikov

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 15:29 — 2 Comments

Workers pulled heavy chains around the façade of a massive three-story building. Sweat stained their colorless shirts and dampened their ill-fitting overalls. Shapeless felt hats obscured men’s crevassed faces that resembled characters from the Great Depression-era photographs. They used carabineers to clip the chain links to worn-out horse harnesses. Their horses, both tired and underfed, pounded their hoofs steadily against the cobblestone. Earlier in the day, the same workers dismantled the white Corinthian columns from the building’s front entrance and removed the streetcar wires to clear the way for the transfer of the structure three blocks north. Finally, when all […]