Highland Springs
By littlebigmosaic on January 28, 2024 11:13 pm
This week's beat is a reflection on my community, Highland Springs
According to the historical marker down the road, it's one of Richmond, VA's earliest streetcar suburbs. It was founded in 1890 by Edmund Sewell Read, a real estate developer from Massachusetts. He named the town for its higher altitude and natural springs that suited his sickly wife.
I've been here a little over a year and a half. Sometimes I imagine it as the setting the setting of an old movie.
Highland Springs
Vintage cars and TV static
Waters of your springs revive
Heal the ailing spirits that cry
Pruitt's early antiques attic
Black and white prayers
Hear them rise in technicolor
Down 9 Mile Rhodes
Over the tears, laughter, and screams,
Above the auto-shops
That taunt the ghosts of streetcar stops
Vapor, bricks and gasoline
Action. Cut. End of scene
Old theater, cafe bakery
Steeples spark tongues aflame
Under a gray streetlamp-studded sky
Your waters babble
Into life, into sound, out of frame
-Adam
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