two oarsmen

true defense safety
permanent work mud flat
battle second
wharf pile granite footing
scow pile driver lighter crane
sea wall concrete tremie
steam pile saw levelling dredge
dive bell store
masonry laying stone
filling
stone fort old type
young absent being
fair face devastation

fort carroll at sunrise
(fort carroll was sold by the state of maryland in 1958 and is still privately owned)

call to fascxiom

hoover’s hematemesis
vomited bubbling out windows
down crumblingmortar oxidizedaluminum moldyvinalwood
into buried earthlung springs
mccarthy’s melena
served mysterymeat
in soupkitchen with sugaredwater
largetracing arsenicleadbenzene
nixon’s necrosis
spreading comfortmutation.
wallace’s stent
scalpaling steelsword
excise resist reject from electricbody

wallace statue in druid hill park at sunrise
(dorothy rose blumberg, later convicted and jailed for advocating for better minimum wages and against discrimination and against abuse of civil liberties, was trailed by many fbi agents in 1952 around reservoir hill where she lived, including on her trips to druid hill park)