Capitol at Dusk Frame Color:Black Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

he wore his straw hat on a late afternoon stroll

when a stagnant mass parked itself over the city for four days

was on the eve of evolution

and when the light turned green the vehicle swung west into Fifty-seventh Street and stopped

Capitol at Dusk Frame Color:Black Natasha TretheweyThe dome of the United States Capitol, better known as the Capitol Building, is one of the world's most recognized landmarks. The Capitol actually has two domes, though, one inside the other. Atop the outer dome, visible in this 1955 photo taken from Southwest Drive, sits Thomas Crawford's bronze sculpture "Freedom," completed during the Civil War. The second, inner dome displays Constantino Brumidi's fresco, "The Apotheosis of George Washington," 180