Tag: 1830

our most sanguine expectations

a beautiful white villa in the glade on the hill
as symmetrical as mercantile interests and power
evaporates like conversations forgotten
and repeating

montebello at sunrise
(general samuel smith, of montebello near the alameda and 33rd streets, exercised power politics at the local, state, and national levels through the first four decades of the 19th century)

transition spiral

spinning steel booms along
wayside forest rivers streams fields mountains rocks
vibrating in new harmony
prime movers roll like firing cannon
on ribbons and zig zags
superelevation comforts
so many wheels turning
overthrowing

roundhouse at sunrise
(the baltimore and ohio railroad began operating to ellicott city in 1830)

sprites

watchmen asleep or in reverie
disregard the black bears and horses
golden lambs and white swans
native queens and general wayne
levitating half-lit globes and hands
hovering in the dark streets
among quiet fountains.
one teamster trundles through
three riders trot separate ways
a boy leads horses around from an alley
reckoning on a rising sun.
a crescendo
of covered wagons riders coaches carts
carriers fetchers trompers striders
seems loud and real

baltimore and light at sunrise
(wagons and country inns predominated baltimore streets into the 1830s)