kinetic sculpture race – sunrise in a small city

on the drawing board

inside the spinning globe
of blue kevlar with lasersequined bursts of iridescent refection
sixteen limbs turn four perpetual super gears
titaniachained to eight selfsteering spikeretracting aquaterra paddlewheels
whirring in labyrinthian timecrystaled lubricant
that mists sucroprotein for kinetinauts
suspended in competition

vionary art museum at sunrise — (the american visionary art museum-hosted, lemans-started east coast kinetic sculpture race championship was first held in 1999)

commodore barney and hobart brown

a boatswains pipe called
to make sail and take them in again.
four horses pulled it in step
on front of the parading crews,
then the tiny federalist sailed.
to warmest expressions of ingenuity

kinetic sculptures — (maryland’s ratification of the federal constitution in 1788 was celebrated on philpot’s hill, which was subsequently renamed federal hill)