paint over

around a bay-filled gorge sand water clay mix old older mountains volcanoes
clouds tarmac black red all around
ships in port engines on shore steel boxes circled squared
stacks spires brick glass walls towers cylinders cranes cubes stadia in shadow
silted water bubbles up paved over and over war
grey birds flash the yellow sun behind horizon
early morning lightning purple blue white
sweep thru waves
water radiated energy

looking back east from park avenue
(looking back east from park avenue in 2019 – how will a once-inventurous city profiteering from slavery, oil wars, and declining human health look after most of its current life is extinct)

a eutaw place

babies and spiders are water web spanning womb and world

our blue eyed koi leapt out of its pond
so we found it not breathing
on the bricks next day
wait
stop
it belongs to the universe
more than me

forever shriek promenade
how do you not hold a most beautiful flower
and petals start falling

so charlie and i are walking out west
all the way to pan handle
golden gate

from some kind of garden
hope free
braced

a eutaw place fountain at sunrise
(eutaw place was building when skrik was painted – this planet has demonstrated over and over that whatever it comes up with after we are gone will be beautiful)

detergent for capital (fire!)

buckets from the well
with the slavery the wars the biosphere destruction
every stain of sweat
by the river come to launder
all of us washing for the holidays

investment bank and financial services at sunrise
(from reverdy thru catherine and beyond, some feel a need to launder money more vigorously than the rest of us)

things coming bump

phased arrays beamforming parallel
small cell
millimeter waves
one million per mile
more
enhanced mobile low latency machine
surveilling
surveying
surrendering
allaying
some bodies mission gone critical
thy soul alone
threat hardening code refresh
handshake protocol ready
one last free breath
random
convert to thing

small cell at sunrise
(the franchise installing 5g routers on city streets, led by a 9m/year ceo, is paying the city a nominal fee to lease more than 1100 routers to telecom companies charging fees regulated by the federal communications commission—you could be throttled less but you couldn’t pay more)

rock promontory

in west baltimore you find rock
hetch-hetchy-like promontories
but oh my.
elijah.
banners of snow in a winter wind
ice on fire in a spring sunrise
huddled pine swelling ten thousand summers
autumn stalwart big moon mirror
elijah.
death and peace in the mountains
fountain of life
we breathe we climb

park and cathedral at sunrise
(elijah cummings has been fighting the fascist coup since before j20)