I preferred to call it a visit from Mr. Grimsby, who I pictured as a stretchy Victorian gentleman with overflowing sideburns and a meerschaum pipe.
Union Porcelain Works
The Union Porcelain Works was one of the most important porcelain manufactories in America during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and the most significant firm in the New York area. Although it maintained a successful bread-and-butter production of hotelware, its fame derives from the hire of German-born sculptor Karl L. H. Muller in advance of the nation’s Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, for which he designed a large number of major exhibition pieces, several of which are in the Museum’s collection. Their display elicited "admiration from the delicacy of the ware and shape, and for beauty of design," in the critical press of the day.
From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mr. Justin
When you report to Justin’s classroom at the beginning of fifth-period lunch, there’s already hella people sitting with the desks pushed together and chopping it up over trays of cheesy potato wedges.
The Fires Are Not Yet Contained (and other poems)
When one hits the bridge
near Richmond, we pack
two days’ worth of clothes
and a few of everyone’s
sentimental objects.