"Ask the man who owns one": that was the advertising slogan that drove Packard to fortune, because these cars became the emblem of status, class, and style. At the Ballston Spa antique auto show, we got a close-up look at one restored version, and examine how the love of Packards demonstrates a little about the American dream; words and images found at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
A beautiful thing
There he sat,
eyes unfocused
yet particularly fixed
on that craning silver pixie
his wife could never drive
from his mind --
she danced in his dreams
it seemed until one Friday
there she was like a long-lost
relation beckoning from the road;
on a sultry afternoon her iris
cheek shone like the bloom
of his own invincibility,
and she seemed to move
if only in the aggrieved manner
that the beautiful
indelibly leaves its mark.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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