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father canton

stockjobbers request your presence
near the pilings in the sediment
to build load and unload.
until they wash out to sea

dockside at sunrise — (the canton company was incorporated in 1829)

flesh-eating stone

the lady
standing on the fascis column
doesn’t see the rising or the setting sun

battle monument at sunrise — (the battle monument was completed in 1822)

cousin james buchanan of the baltimore branch of the bank of the united states

capitalists are forever oppressed and free.
and they know it

no building at sunrise — (misappropriation and mismanagement caused bank failures and exacerbated a severe depression in 1819)

conquer we must

from the state of war
pride and destiny.
one million dollars for freed slaves
genocide for tenskwatawa and tecumseh

harbor from fort mchenry — (the treaty of ghent was signed in 1815)

sir arthur brookes victory

exhilarate
watching an empire
melt away before you.
never soon enough

cannon and sunrise — (facing 15,000 maryland soldiers, militia, and citizens fortifying hampstead hill in patterson park, the british stopped their attack on baltimore in 1814 and withdrew)

concerning crimes and punishments

in a labor-scarce economy
for violations upon the lives, liberties or property, of others
in response to public outrage at the spectacle of convicts laboring on roads
solitary confinement, common silence, and hard labor.
operated profitably

penitentiary at sunrise — (in 1804 the baltimore penitentiary was erected on madison street for confinement and labor as an alternative to public and degrading punishment)

in the land of land jobbers

in the expensive dirty muddy town
every prayer and petition for the kings majesty
was henceforth omitted.
thoughts turned to france.
small pox was precluded and five million dollars emitted.
they wondered whether the people would eat bread or drink whiskey.
royal portraits were hung upside down.
slaves and convicts worked
while idle sons lived like princes betting on horses, cocks and cards.
general washington
was provided with whatever he may want wherever he may be.
until our unhappy differences are ended

liberty at sunrise — (the continental congress met in baltimore for three months in 1776 and 1777 at a house on baltimore and liberty streets while philadelphia was under threat of british invasion)

two-masted schooners

antelope and buckskin
defence, fidelity and enterprise
harlequin, nonesuch and sturdy beggar
careening and plunging in a gale.
beating to windward along a coast.
before the wind under clouds of canvass.
fresh away before brigs or frigates
on the wide-spread ocean

schooner at sunrise — (baltimore clippers dominated trade and warfare in the late 18th and early 19th centuries)

in steigers meadow

dispense justice
promote virtue
guarantee harmony
preserve the law
respect property and neighbors
replace ignorance and superstition with knowledge of right and wrong.
inspect flour
cull staves and shingles
measure grain
weigh hay and cord wood.
receive specified fees

courthouse at sunrise — (the baltimore county seat was moved from joppa to baltimore town in 1768 and a courthouse was commissioned to be built on a bluff overlooking jones falls)

le grand dérangement

people are
the land
trees
and animals.
brooks and babin and alexander
denys and doiron and brown
glode and gauterot and oliver.
refugees scatter in place and time
from land claimed by princes.
who would not annihilate can help build an alliance

alley at sunrise — (in the mid-1750s acadians fleeing british persecution left nova scotia and re-settled in colonies to the south, many around what became known as french alley)