exhaling rust

not gary johnstown birmingham youngstown lackawanna
yawata dortmunde-horde port talbott magnitogorsk
morning mist so red
sky orange sun far off night glowing warm
red bellies hot entrails piss wash lightning cold
kitchen grilling steel eel
extruding endlessly
rolling shining exploded ore
burning boiling hotblast
plate structural strip sheet
tonnage crying screaming born
in massive sweating smoldering forceps

former steel mill at sunrise
(sparrows point was the largest steel mill in the world in 1957)

twelve minutes

a large backward el
along highlands above a river
through rail oil alluvium
spinestraight façade oceaneast
saattaannaammaa
momentmelodywatergather
rubbberwhirrspistonsechoes
patapsco
darkness
light

tunnel portal after sunrise
(the harbor tunnel opened in 1957 reducing automobile travel time through baltimore via fairfield and canton to philadelphia or dc)