georgia plantation

gods of tobacco demanded more leaf
so vassals complied
using torture and mass murder
leaving no room in all quarters.
entrepreneurs scraped and cooked fields of clay and ore
into city streets and citadels.
using the means familiar to them and blood for glue

from carroll mansion at sunrise
(most tobacco plantations were in southern maryland, but the site of one carroll family plantation, purchased in 1732, is in west baltimore)