Atlas plate · Massachusetts and Philadelphia
Remember the ladies
Braintree writes the farm and the law. Philadelphia is making a country.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Braintree
Between
war, office, the length of a sitting
Toward
Philadelphia
Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.
- From
- Braintree, Massachusetts
- Toward
- Philadelphia, the Congress
- Between
- New England roads, a war, the post
- Distance
- about 440 km of a country that does not yet exist on paper
- Obstacle
- war, office, the length of a sitting
- Beloved
- John Adams
- Time apart
- the months of 1776, and many years of the same road
- Message delay
- a rider, a packet, a letter half as long as she asked
- What stands between them
- a farm and a congress, and a sentence about the ladies