Author: hinzadw

waxed bronze

pause over
my appointment with violent death
cause over

sailors and sldiers at sunrise
(the union soldiers and sailors monument was sanctioned in 1906 and dedicated in druid hill park in 1910, roughly coinciding with three failed attempts to disenfranchise maryland african american voters—it was moved to wyman park near 29th and charles streets in 1959 out of the path of the jones falls expressway)

boulevards to parks

along across ridges valleys
from city streets
through open forested uplands
water highways flatlands
from patterson to herring run back river bear creek
lexington to elkridge through halethorpe
lafayette to elicott through catonsville
druid hill to gwynns falls roland montebello
wyman to loch raven through towson
montebello to loch raven clifton
clifton to patterson
herring run to loch raven
green ways
in arcing sun
walking
in jet stream

toward golf course at sunrise
(many recommendations in the report upon the development of public grounds for greater baltimore by the olmstead brothers published in 1904 have been adopted—except our great parks remain unconnected)

anthrogaiapocene

i meet you in ashes
as we walk away from what had been
i learn about you
we make and destroy cities of hills by water
woven with hate
you are my second skin
we consume each other
please
scratch bleed wash chew and spit me
into something i cant see

redwood street at sunrise
(the great baltimore fire of 1904 started in the basement of a warehouse at hopkins place and german, now redwood, street)

who is who

blue skies fade white in glass
resolving clear in warm air
intoxicating reflection
in liquid suspended
over rough marble atop a thin column
inverted arch
vessel of windows and doors
opening murals mosaics in bas-relief
shimmering in polychrome of famous words
strolling nude bright eyes clean violence soaring music
grand schemes

belvedere at sunrise
(the hotel belvedere opened on chase street in 1903)

gift of a site

walking in hills and dells
hogs mill out of the orchard into bondage
toads rustle toward water barbaric
deer graze in circuits progressing
ravens encircle anticipating
sparrows forage in microcosm
cows linger about stables ignorant
sheep graze superstitious
a few hundred birds in song capable
weasels forerun
roosters confer
geese gather around opportunity
cats habituate each on its own
rats steal in order attention obedience discrimination and memory
ox and horse till usefully
falcons train on pigeons
snails rasp across tasty objects
flies light on still hands
and snakes measure air with tongue-craft
so join hands each a teacher farmer artisan
nonexempt in falling icy fangs

homewood at sunrise
(in 1902 the land for the johns hopkins homewood campus, as well as wyman park and the way between wyman park and druid hill park, was donated by eight people, including david carroll)

single executive system

responsibility
scrutiny
municipality
professionalism
highest bidded infrastructure use
unhasty legislation
limited floating debt
protected public schools
well-supervised assistance.
rising expenditure inelastic revenue
fictitious valuations
discounting the future
expensive mediocrity
wastefulness inefficiency
services rendered incommensurate with available resources
bogey of threatened removal

city hall from south at sunrise
(the city began operating under a new charter in 1898)

common enemy

in a rain of flowers and cheers
our soldiers fire on people in the streets
between the buildings on the pavement
echo chamber roar
squeezes blood
out of eyes ears nose lungs
briefly faintly tinting the coastal waters
traces of anthropocene

mount royal station at sunrise
(in 1898 the massachusetts sixth, successor to the same regiment attacked by baltimore residents 37 years earlier, marched from the b&o’s recently opened mount royal station to camden station, cheered by citizens enthusiastic about the start of a war with spain)