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echoes from the life behind

echoes from the life behind - Richmond Generating Station
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Portside Power Plant (a pseudonym), 2009. Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America


Also in: Richmond Generating Station

a certain kind of emptiness
rendered drab by the shadows of time
of forms assembled in the light
locked from the inside
counterpoint to our fundamental failures
a symbol for the century
the trail of the past
in things continually vanishing
hard to say
what i wanted