South Carolina Columbia old wisconsin print here corralled into the elliptical

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

four years of blood and ledger reduced to Grant's terms scratched out in pencil and Lee's quiet assent

infected summer that followed

Independence Day here is less celebration than reckoning

optical phantoms and refracted moons are diagrammed with the solemnity of heresy

South Carolina Columbia old wisconsin print here corralled into the ellipticalSouth Carolina Columbia arrives by way of the Congaree, where the statehouse dome catches Carolina light and Main Street stretches in lithographed calm past Trinity's spires and the long colonnades of the university. These are linen views of a capital rebuilt from Sherman's ashes magnolia shaded, palmetto flanked, and quietly proud of it. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings