Tag: lombard street

endura folks

darker rings
how many one chances to resist decay
starwaste or anthropolymer
absorbing stress response
precipating enzyme
until the forest entire burns
perhaps seeds after

united states district court at sunrise
(in 2017 thirteen baltimore residents were arrested for protesting against fascism in washington dc, an enclave of the united states without full representation, and prosecuted in dc to support fascist government policy and fascist government operations)

one half million

humans in society
cotton wool stories waver bunting flying high in wind sun rain
individual community environment
passing copper electricity
toward people palace of trust
sparrows on any flag rendered colorless

baltimore passage at sunrise
(in 2001 flag house courts, the last of our public housing high-rises, was demolished to be replaced by 338 units of housing, 20,000 sf of new and refurbished retail space, and green space, including baltimore passage at lombard and albermarle)

pleasure dome

fight through pleasant exciting environment
closer to venice urban undiluting
in perplexing injustice awkward triangular
through economic valley in magnetism field
touch side windows out on city
from three small squares
mixintenseuse
on slope bridging superblock

charles center at sunrise
(the greater baltimore committee formed in 1956 and bonds for its first project, charles center– between liberty street, hopkins place, and lombard, charles, and saratoga streets– were approved by voters in 1958)

three ways

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)

to the lords of trade

people had plantations on the water
for the convenience of trade
until it pleased god to increase them
so they would build more close and live in towns.
sixty acres of john flemings farm
with respect to trade
might soon become a flourishing place

site of farmhouse at sunrise
(baltimore town, established in 1729, was surveyed in 1730 and divided into 60 lots around the fleming farmhouse near baltimore and lombard streets)