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@jorgen83 wrote:

Image 11, Verse 10:

First of all, on the bracelet I read: 42
On the squarish stand thing below center: 83
That gives us Detroit.

Then the text:
*"In the shadow
Of the grey giant"*
Might be the GM Renaissance center...

*"Find the arm that
Extends over the slender path"*
This could be the Joe Louis statue, although this might not work timewise (the book came out before, I think).

*"In summer
You'll often hear a whirring sound
Cars abound"*
Cars = Detroit, but also I looked for a race track (whirring of race cars in summer?) and found:


So Belle Isle.

*"Although the sign
Nearby
Speaks of Indies native"*
This marker speaks of the natives, and the siege of Detroit by an Indian called Pontiac: http://detroit1701.org/Siege%20of%20Detroit%20Marker.html

*"The natives still speak
Of him of Hard word in 3 Vols."*
Don't know, but Hard is probably a name because it has a capital. 3 volumes could refer to a book in three volumes, but then again it's abbreviated.

"Take twice as many east steps as the hour
Or more"
The image has a big circle which could be interpreted as a clock using the star and the moon as dials. Perhaps ten o'clock? So twenty steps...

"From the middle of one branch
Of the v"
Looking down from Belle Isle, I find this V, which also looks a bit like the image:

"Look down
And see simple roots
In rhapsodic man's soil"
Look down and see simple roots might just be grass. Rhapsodic man's soil stumps me. It seems to refer to a composer of sorts?

"Or gaze north
Toward the isle of B."
Belle Island can be seen to the north.

That's it for now...

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