Category: drama

counting air keep spitting

some never leave mothers ocean
others breathe
three hundred ten million
more to share than
condolences
did you say
“and there was never a respite from the battle”
bringing my transchild
to meet your son

downtown from east baltimore at sunrise

(young moose released otm2 and opened out of the mud clothing on monument street in 2014)

distortious

a forever known only to themselves jaw breaking
steel ribbed tools of selfsound strident banquet playing
blood as noise rising high grinding down
loud bright points dark matrix strenuous
hell ranging
songbirthing pound
consuming marrow and muscle splitting ear
electrons chaotic mind rule children
chord soaring shipmates riotous marque
shooting horizontal furious stars
infinite atonal binary prima
expressive hell crashing
steel fire lense laser apocalyptics profound
where trains go manic
live nativity fast heavy plasma sound

community space at sunrise, saint paul and 26th streets, baltimore

 (the baltimore rock opera society started performing in 2009, at the 2640 space )

into pools

valkerae crawling thru bright rings of perception
lostlove stabbed and bleeding play rebirth in dripping velvet
arresting music draws them into kaleidoscope writhing zombie snakes
disappearing in paintsplash come to life in ballet circus serpent coalescing
float apart as dreams swirl and collide in drowning passion
unfurl as sails flying in ocean blood red glittering gold
windbuzzing canvass folds mantis fly beetle bee combusting popping clapping hands
smoke flattens screening filtering shapes into stop and go
protofungoteria oxygen fueled cellsuponcells reptofloweringflying glitterdelight
they sing the waging war of sundust conquerlust eartharvest in laughter
march in loudly colored ballooning hoops of lovechild rhyme
step onto fourwheeled footcarts in globemirrored zoomrevue
waterglobe dancestorm seaquesting in bluegreenscarletyellow
portalexploring in darkcrime
rolling sold out streets into forcefield happiness
sleuthingtopia slaverybuilt boomsechoing
fantasies disintegrating deconstructing into lifestoria
reelspinturnwhirling soundunfurious stretching spiralfate they celebrate

city pool at sunrise
(fluid movement staged their first water ballet in 1999 in patterson park)

the movie party

in a post industrial city sixteen car lot between a three story commercial rowhouse and a four story garage among dry cleaners and metal clubs and pricey restaurants a masquerade of merchants generals sailors steelworkers storytellers healers and survivalists mingle in costumes from around north america and the world in front of a mural in brick and mortar as it begins to move change speed up slow down darken explode clarify and fade. they chat orate gesture swoon and watch to understand what is dying and what is being born but agree on a definitive statement with an unexpected twist

movie house at sunrise
(the maryland film festival, after fits and starts under different titles spanning almost thirty years, began in 1999 with the charles theater as the venue, after an opening screening at the senator)

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)

supervene

linger here dark embrace
take what love gives
pressed hands
welded
dyed
back and forth in golden shoes
dreams shadows

eutaw and fayette streets at sunrise
(performances at ford’s grand opera house on eutaw and fayette streets were picketed from 1947 until it desegregated in 1952—many artists and production companies boycotted the theater during that time)

lewis hallams lamp

the players came as
old devils, ghosts, and assassins
for families together, young and old
and the fire-new town was happy.
the genii foretold
a thousand fearful wrecks
weeds to grow apace
queens and kings to lose their children
pearls to grow from tears
parents slaughtered and children butchered
shadows of terror
tyrants slain and children freed from the sword.
brothers shedding brothers blood until peace lives again

lamp ghosts at sunrise
(in 1773 performances started in a warehouse near baltimore street—in 1782 a theater built farther east on baltimore street opened with a performance of richard III)