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American Chateau
A mansion built by a rubber fortune at an intersection in Akron,
with stag heads blooming from walls, Tudor windows, ethnic gardens, birch hall, hothouse, forested path, grape arbor, giant chess men,
bees clinging for balance to flowers, an immersion pool with no shallows.
A framed letter from the fortune’s daughter commends the patriarch
for his boons to civic life.
This is as close as we get to a chateau in our land of merchants.
Think of it when you pass a tire dump, or the splayed ravens
of a burst semi tire
on the highway, or a dead deer by the berm, or the acrid slap of odor that warns of skunk.
clarke w. owenS
