general cargo please

finger piers break-bulk
shorefigurate into yards consolidating sheds
fugitive particulate cornslagate
one-hundred year alignments
squatting bulks of coalorefertilizergrainpetrol leaching awaytide
smother the waterfront industrial vacancy
patiently waiting water as one i love
come with the sea

harbor at sunrise
(in 1964 the maryland port authority took possession of the locust point marine terminal from the b & o railroad)