River Vices
Saturday, September 30, 2017
The White House
The Elden House, built 1853
The house has a secret
that it cannot tell,
a secret that, if revealed,
would break the spell
cast when it was built
in eighteen fifty-three,
north of the Mason-Dixon,
in the era of slavery.
The dark secret skulks
behind a white exterior,
a secret that’s never
been revealed before,
and never will as long
as the color line persists
and as long as this historical
white house poetically exists.
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