fayette street – sunrise in a small city

surveillasphere

some where in earth space time
vector to raster to target
drone the sounding
collected electromagnetic watching each other
unbroken layers correlating cellophane
under tarmac floor to ceiling doorstep and doorstep corner with corner rooftop allover on up into orbiture
layers and layers around and through
our slowly expiring starlight

police administration building at sunrise — (in 2016 police, without the knowledge or consent of anyone else including city government added, at eight thousand five hundred feet, a layer of time-tracked pixelated spy photographs and data, linked to street-level surveillance cameras and data, over the entire city—deploying technology developed in the war against iraq)

phone mesh

animal carcasses in alleys
poisoned cats bloodied dogs abandoned horses
sand and mud sedimenting into tunnels under streets
virtuous delusion
obscure good
wicked favor
stones sharp shards and sewage in sidewalks and roadways
oh from the sea that surrounds us
yellow copper stoppered with lead
ringing opens the seal
power appears in fog and smoke
speak civilly and firm with empathy and hope
cast your net
give the brightly colored fish to your sultan

city offices at sunrise — (the first 311 service in the united states was piloted here in 1996, with help from the department of justice community oriented policing services office, to reduce 911 call volume—in 2000 call data started being analyzed to evaluate performance of city agencies)

modernist capital

wait about our own horizon for an early morning bus
heart and lungs laboring humid heat
slowly fading from outside
abyss center
swirl
forgotten to ourselves

one charles center at sunrise — (most of charles center was completed between 1962 and 1969)

copitas

morning shadows breakfast
sun extinguishing electric street
smogashen dew briefsoothing
nothing despair nothing
slow anthrosuicide prevention
ringing phone
eggs runningintotoast
tableset edgeswiped
saucers sweeping in orbitspinning
blackcoffee whiteporcelain bread orangemarmalade
stay and drinkwithme
insomnia
because nothing rejoice
inour nohurry pleasantlighted cleancafe

charles and fayette at sunrise — (after continuing direct action in city restaurants that started at hoopers restaurant at charles and fayette streets in 1960, the maryland general assembly passed a law permitting the city and several other jurisdictions to bar segregation in public places in 1963)

sampling discarding

not to leave world control
bothered by malignant truth
agents of a power exploding hoax

calvert and fayette at sunrise — (the house unamerican affairs committee persecuted progressives in baltimore in 1957 at the federal building at calvert and fayette streets)

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)

tolling still

the loneliness of a wild haven
surrounded by dark rocks and towering trees
an eden
in the labyrinth of water images of the future glisten unhidden
forever changing dells of poplar
in an ancient valley of unrest
a settling town in a sea of time-eaten towers
buried hopes among the green slopes
with glorious golden banners and echoing throngs
silence interludes obscure and lonely
amid mountains silting into oceans
an eldorado by that infinity
destined for the sounding sea

gavesite at sunrise — (edgar allan poe died in baltimore and was buried in a presbyterian graveyard at fayette and greene streets in 1849)

taxation without education

excluded from opportunities of respectability in humble confinement
from condescended illusions of independence.
a missed opportunity for assimilated cultural genocide

fayette street at sunrise — (the first public school, not available to african americans who supported it with taxes, opened on holliday and fayette streets in 1829)