Category: infrastructure

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)

row mytopia

body of prisoner restless seizing breathless on shore
light on water quiet and slow
dripping from the oar
toward a tunnel out there an island
a kiss in a short and happy dream

rowing on the Patapsco at sunrise
(in 2016 the city began investing half a billion dollars to build out the dream of a clothing manufacturer to grab shoreline and profit from leasing office, residential, and retail space)

whose guardrail

to
gathering gaining advancing
all nations society salvation
through
sincerity
first step front line there


strength from all things

no matter where they read it
whose god they say said it
a means to prevent or deter access to peace love understanding
is making shit up

near facebook address for 300 gangstas at sunrise
(300 gangstas came together during the uprising after freddie gray was murdered for no apparent reason by police in 2015)

brightred cityline

red line as bloodline
red line under bottomline
red line of fiery sun in pipeline
red line twisted into lighttwine
red line restoration neighborhood community prometheancityinvestmentline

border of small city with no rapid mass transit at sunrise
(the governor of maryland defunded the red line in 2015 without bothering to ask the city and county about providing more tax increment financing and private investment, the ‘president’ of the united states approved the racist and self-serving decision in 2017)

fractal starbus

under our tarmac brick and mostly clay
fungi wires seeping pipes measured light
soil thru shoes thru brain in sky
capital entropy underneath
enzymes unshared
instead of leaves stretching sun gathering water together.

so some days
is it the weather my fingers feel like dying
material ceasing to cycle
nutrients not flowing

north avenue from fulton avenue at sunrise
(freddie gray was murdered by police in 2015 for no apparent reason)

up from cabin branch

north of schooners wooden freighters concrete steamers sidewheel barges
violets arbutus honeysuckle pansies chinquapin berries
poplar popland elm elmtree cedar ceddox
twenty eight shades of red orange brick towering
walking back into matrix of soil
rooted revolution

brick faced steel water tower and community garden and industrial port at sunrise
(in 2009 the filbert street community garden became)

closeup see

frackgas exploding under postpunk tunnelcore
whirlybirds would jam away
give us your liquid when you must die
you take your sleep

nightclub at sunrise through rail right-of-way around-growth
(in 2013 ‘if we shout loud enough’ documented, among other things, double dagger’s final performance, at the ottobar, in 2011—meanwhile let us hope for rail safety and two-person hazardous freight crews in the city that invented so called u.s. rail)

one 800 cellular violence

oxygen honeycombs
human estuary of gas exchange
cytoplasmic veils gently vibrating
air and carbon glide through
macrophagia angle toward contagion
so we on the edge like reeds in the salty mud
breath air and music for
every second song of the universe

nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, mercury, and hydrochloric acid at sunrise
(in 2013 a massachusetts institute of technology study revealed the wheelabrator bresco trash incinerator has killed roughly eight thousand baltimore city residents since it began operating in 1985—destiny watford organized the curtis bay community to prevent an incinerator from being built there in 2016)