eutaw street – sunrise in a small city

a los aficionados

words about our fraught body beautiful
boom
sky in spring egg blue
struggle passion
matadors and gravity
baseballs flying straight pure natural
touching
nobody nothing but here

from the playground at the city at sunrise — *(the orioles played to no one once in 2015 after freddie gray was murdered by police for no apparent reason)*

bowthread

to mass kandace
iron works trade
live kale

vegetarian restaurant at sunrise, eutaw and howard streets, baltimore — *(the land of kush started serving vegetarian food on eutaw street in 2008)*

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)

painful pillows hold my head in vice
sloshing radiators overheat bowels
words saidunsaid needle hurting space
in fetal blueskinned sluggish confusion
out to frostyclear dawnlight
moist easterlies
three softslowstepping laps
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
everabsssorbing cobalt blue
fizzzbuzzz
trainsss leaving sssouth

cobalt blue at sunrise — (the emerson bromo seltzer tower on lombard and eutaw streets was the tallest skyscraper in the city from 1911 to 1923)

carl versus robots

its never time
without shadow
free winds
seeds
sun
surviving
adapting
sheltering
alone
words take flight
raining on footsteps
and falling leaves

five stories at sunrise — (in 1922 carl murphy began managing the afro american newspaper, then headquartered at 628 eutaw street)

recommon

repair
resource
rear
returnturnturnturn
rehold
refree

down eutaw at sunrse — (in 1921 federated jewish charities and united hebrew charities combined into the associated jewish charities and operated at monument and eutaw streets)

a place apart

not within a half mile
for the reception of poor
vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders
idle dissolute disorderly loiterers
who follow no trade, labor, or occupation
as shall be committed by justice.
especially for poor incapacitated by illness, old age, physical handicap, mental deficiency, or insanity
beds, bedding, tools, utensils, cows, horses, a doctor and his medicines
to acquire a livelihood.
for the successful trials of vaccination first on nancy then on others.
for beams of light in the dark grandeur of the soul.
intemperate or opiated
religiously perplexed or fanatic
ill
grief stricken by loss of affection or property
masturbating
indulgent of passion or pride
domestically unhappy.
supposed

alms at sunrise — (in 1773 the colonial legislature enacted a law for the establishment of an alms and work house outside baltimore town—the site selected was near howard, eutaw, and biddle streets)

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