counter-current realty

fields of ore
slowly rain down coked solar fire updraft
roaring chamber explosion music
softening
exhaling
pooling separate
bleeding trickle into veins
tendriling opiate through biomass
automatrons harvest
feeding engineerimmortal dreams

former steel mill at sunrise
(the 32-story l-blast furnace at sparrows point started operating in 1975—and was demolished in 2015)

in the basis of data available

voices in lines of chairs in a hall
marching steps through a street
signs in a square
electron magnetic moments
disorient and fade in random city
wanting electricity
sustained and renewed
in extradimensional grid of passion

high school at sunrise
(in 1974 many patterson high students and parents protested for the school to remain comprehensive, rather than become a construction trade magnet)

cry against it

city surrounding swelters
mortar dissolving into sand
forests invade with worms
growing and burning in season
one great endless vessel
emerges from evaporating rain
words oscillate
but only fiery emptiness
makes peace

cemetary with playground at sunrise
(jonah house was established in west baltimore in 1973 and is now resourced on moreland avenue)

not building one-piece

working in boilers belts furnaces smelters stampers
radical atoms
sweating out working through
until electricity whines
grunching louder minute by minute days weeks months
working where
why know-why
surfacing over deepwater and flats sounding mosquito-like
around missing floating city
fishing away compression pain
mind access
radio signals eternity

warehouse parking lot at sunrise
(the american standard plumbing manufacturing plant in canton closed in 1972)

anisotropy

herstory swirls spirals twists
plasma oscillating
restoring force
dark energy matter

free clinic at sunrise
(the womens union formed in 1972, resourced from the peoples free medical clinic on greenmount avenue and partly inspired by women: a journal of liberation)