Author: hinzadw

heart open

shadows unspiraling unturning under
pink peach light blue mercy
seen smiling faithfully
each day new sky
friendly singing
scarves and kerchiefs spin infinitely
for she who must be saved

baltimore and calvert at sunrise
(gillis memorial christian community church deacon and choir singer hattie carroll was murdered by a tobacco land-owner from charles county at the emerson hotel on baltimore and calvert streets in 1963)

swimming pool age

riverside
area to flowing water
a time volume velocity
upstream momentum in density
fluid flowing streamline fashion
long ropes tie off
persons pulling
weight ground on feet
horizontal separation center of mass
red river
jatavious jamarcus takeitha litrelle ladairus latevin
walled water just waits
and we float away in moonlight

swimming pool at sunrise
(an “angry, ugly, hate-maddened mob” threatened neighbors who came to swim at riverside pool in 1962)

nightboat

drinking dining
seeing ships boats shoreline
southeast onto late afternoon riversea
sun slowly farther behind
lower then forgotten
steamer slipping into evening south
through nursing sharks under homebound heron
night sinking into past
so far
a speck of light
explodes all
and rainforest drips unsilent

valley and pigs

needle into bloodstream
congestive heart
escaping maelstrom of nothing.
or dews gather dreams
dancing labor streaming
down to world
falling out to stars
resting in wind and reeds
soulharbor fecundcity
estuary unlocked corridor unalchemy
of pulsing breathing green brown black and blue
just as nothing

expressway at sunrise
(the jones falls expressway opened from biddle street to the beltway in 1962)

movingon lookingback

first tomatoes
stew and soup
onions cabbage carrots squash lentils beets
bread and butter
fish and plums
ornate lock in rabbi soul
circular chapel blue green pieces
shining dove in water
liniment in oil
service overseas
walking in flowers to sound of crows

museum and synagogue at sunrise
(the jewish museum of maryland was founded in 1960 to save the lloyd street synagogue from demolition)

between dublin and belfast

coppertin bronze harmonics
lathed echoing dalgans fort
ring out
over tarmac-topped hexavalent
chrome airships into industry disappear back into weather
expodingpiston magic carpets rolloffrollon
steel coils
raw rubber
wood pulp

marine terminal at sunrise
(the maryland port authority bought harbor field, formerly the baltimore municipal airport, in 1959 and began constructing the dundalk marine terminal)

two oarsmen

true defense safety
permanent work mud flat
battle second
wharf pile granite footing
scow pile driver lighter crane
sea wall concrete tremie
steam pile saw levelling dredge
dive bell store
masonry laying stone
filling
stone fort old type
young absent being
fair face devastation

fort carroll at sunrise
(fort carroll was sold by the state of maryland in 1958 and is still privately owned)

exhaling rust

not gary johnstown birmingham youngstown lackawanna
yawata dortmunde-horde port talbott magnitogorsk
morning mist so red
sky orange sun far off night glowing warm
red bellies hot entrails piss wash lightning cold
kitchen grilling steel eel
extruding endlessly
rolling shining exploded ore
burning boiling hotblast
plate structural strip sheet
tonnage crying screaming born
in massive sweating smoldering forceps

former steel mill at sunrise
(sparrows point was the largest steel mill in the world in 1957)