Ode to the Rouge River Ford plant
TARNISHED HEROES
Ode to the Rouge River Ford plant
Sometimes someone shines
an illuminating light
on one of your youthful heroes,
tarnishing his/her likeness,
and you have to take time to
reevaluate your evaluation
of the value of this person,
So you resurrect your old self,
of your naively perfect world view.
compassionately holding values
you hold dear
in an imperfect world
that is trying to be perfect,
and yet is tarnished
in so many parts of the land.
Richard MacKay
PHOTO BY SCOTT HOCKING
“Zug Island, the Solvay Process brownfield, and Site of the Great Mound” (2008), from Scott Hocking’s photo series “The Mound Project” (2007-present), Detroit, Michigan. In this series, Hocking photographs the sites of former Indigenous mounds and constructs art-installation mounds, one of the few projects that brings Detroit’s lost earthworks into the public eye.
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