July 2016 – Page 2 – sunrise in a small city

donations as investments

grains of wet alkaline aluminum iron magnesium
separately suspended and adrift
settling in bonded tetrahedral and octahedral sheets
attapulgite beidellite dickite halloysite illite kaolinite
montmorillonite nacrite nontronite saponite smectite sepiolite
layering in soils
plastic
molded tablets bricks tiles cups pots urns
distinct
sintered ceramic earthen porcelain stone
composite

asylum at sunrise — (in 1876 william rayner led the dedication of the hebrew orphan asylum’s new building on ashburton and rayner streets)

roger brooke taney

your honor you are unbalanced
your unhinged brain dangling forward toppling over
oxygen deprived
filled with misconception
an inquisitor utterly lost
disgrace hangs all about you in long deep folds

racist at sunrise — (a statue of chief justice taney was installed in mount vernon square in 1887)

pressure

raise the stick like a hero
hold it in both hands high and mighty
hurl it clattering across the square
decide and act neither one nor the other
but both in dynamo

force at sunrise — (in 1885 william walters donated five sculptures by antoine-louis barye, one of them titled force, to the city for mount vernon square)