boulevards to parks

along across ridges valleys
from city streets
through open forested uplands
water highways flatlands
from patterson to herring run back river bear creek
lexington to elkridge through halethorpe
lafayette to elicott through catonsville
druid hill to gwynns falls roland montebello
wyman to loch raven through towson
montebello to loch raven clifton
clifton to patterson
herring run to loch raven
green ways
in arcing sun
walking
in jet stream

toward golf course at sunrise
(many recommendations in the report upon the development of public grounds for greater baltimore by the olmstead brothers published in 1904 have been adopted—except our great parks remain unconnected)

anthrogaiapocene

i meet you in ashes
as we walk away from what had been
i learn about you
we make and destroy cities of hills by water
woven with hate
you are my second skin
we consume each other
please
scratch bleed wash chew and spit me
into something i cant see

redwood street at sunrise
(the great baltimore fire of 1904 started in the basement of a warehouse at hopkins place and german, now redwood, street)