primary secondary mover

an infant opening closing opening a red tin box
fingers humanizing deities we bore
shifted shape shifting shape every twist a tool of creation
breathing batteries of skill connecting

tool library near cemetery at sunrise, east oliver street, baltimore
(station north tool library began operating on oliver street in 2013)

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huge aqua pearl reflecting two turtles
floating between toss and whack
counting days
rose peach mortar brick iced in early sun
floating over creamy mud
street in bloom
bronze wings lift flyer running
on crests of waves
marking days
magnetic portal curtain of water
dark gray filament out of orange pink soaring rock
valley in mountain
cast into grimace stabbing metal spectrum twisting
misery into laughter
shaping days
white plum blossoms preserved
resting cratered in cobalt melting half life
snow in blue space

museum at sunrise, center street from cathedral street, baltimore

(the walters art museum applied a creative commons zero: no rights reserved license to its digital images in 2011)

really big show

singing strutters drift in from deep ocean
whistling stomping
squealing plucking
barking blowing
chuckling serenading
wailing swirling
in blue orange black white
gathered separate focused diffused
sculpting color
windows doors poles trees cars cobbles frame
water flowing exploded fading
shops steps
assembling arranging
out of unseen sayers seers
neighboring culturing
pause
play
flying in timelight

fell street at sunrise
(the creative alliance started out as the fells point creative alliance from margaret footner’s café on fell street in 1995)

pando human

walk into a forest trembling gold silver yellow
see six thousand tons ringing breathing as one grain
taste pollen blooming ten thousand springs
walk forty thousand feet of dispersed light with each step
hear forty thousand engines working in whisper
smell eighty thousand sun orbits as one second
meaning has found you

cosmic galaxy egg at sunrise
(the american visionary opened at 800 key highway in 1995 with the tree of life—andrew logan sculpted cosmic galaxy egg in 2004)

crane buddha and toad

an august early morning
in city brick asphalt soil grass and trees julyabsorbed
a red brown black toad poised unglazed as clay
on a knee of buddha turned away from his gaze
from high unseen rare untimely
a grey crane alights on buddhas head
a glorious globe unfolding in the sun
ball of medicine paper burning with color and flowering stigma
crane folds its wings in predatory prayer
toads beautiful heart beats faster and broken
buddha smiles
after eating an ant and lichen toad hops to arbor vitae
crane loosens and swallows a stone of clay and spirals away
buddha remains serene eroding
cast toad into the city and crane into the world
to share hunger
for wet muddy reeds and rice in unsplit unfused atoms of drenching rain

buddha at sunrise
(in 1994 artist, teacher, and peace activist noriko ikaga formed the statue of buddha near dickson and lafayette streets—act for peace http://www.icanw.org/)

with the devils of the sea

oxblood coral crushedstrawberry
rose runninginto ruby
paperthin bluesky mirrorbright snowplaintivewhite
sky between cloudsafterrain
fisheggs dewsprinkled
deadleafpurple
blackyellow blueblack gold
eelsblood paleblue
veins orangepeel shiveringice
oilywhite darkolive rainbowluster
applegreen pearldew
yellowcream palechocolate
cinnabar charcoal goldsprinkled
teadust ironrust
sunsteel
greenvioletblack copper
copper bluegreen
rosewhite turquoiseblue
yellowearth
terracotta
twilight skypure watercalm settingsun sparklingriver
whitemarblestained sapphiresea lateautumn
stormhiddensunbathed rayguilded
meltingsnow leadensky
dullyellowsky curdlingfog
whitecap blackcoat greensatin redblood troddensnow
lightdark infinite
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bma at sunrise
(in 1909 henry walters remodeled four houses on charles street in mount vernon square and opened the art collection started by his father to the public)