Tag: 2000

somenowhere

songs snow blossoms dreams
risk edge
green gold hills
unevencovered grasstrash
speedmylove

senior center at sunrise
(in 2000 many northeast residents protested settling public housing tenants in houses throughout the city, causing postponement of a hearing at the harford senior center so a larger venue could be scheduled)

screw pine master

parade of sail into estuary abdomen
seas into forests into mountains
over a helix into steel and copper canals
vast parallel empty in sunlight
black red yellow white pour into valleys and peaks
vaporized by multicolored flames lightning flashes
into a tall ship made of everything
sweeping toward invisibility as pearls of ice radiate from the rigging
breath stolen from the ocean dying in search of truth
as the earth spirals in the ship turns around like a shadow puppet
closing on a perfect mirror of rocks and rain
to explode in splinters and shreds of union
rising up and floating mites of color in one giant nova parachuting like a flower

inner harbor at sunrise
(the dewaruci, one of 31 tall ships calling on baltimore in 2000, sailed from indonesia)

spinarette

spider reached into the heart of a piano
with insect strength pulled out handfuls of strings
swung them overhead and around
casting ends over rafters and ropes
then pulled them all tight into chest
how they shined in the lights and threw weird shadows
a vibrating soundweb of hammer strike
as spider taps into a breakwalking dance en march

culturL center at sunrise
(the eubie blake cultural arts center moved to north howard street in 2000)