Category: environment

red sticks in a swamp with sea snails

a steel vessel of army trucks
dieselsteamturbining into coastal marsh
attracting limpets alarmed now exploding
sinks into defoliated biome 

brownfield water treatment plant at sunrise, sparrows point
(steel production stopped at sparrows point in 2012 when the plant was sold to a liquidator–the bethlehem fairfield-built baton rouge sank in the nine dragon river delta in 1966)

primary secondary mover

an infant opening closing opening a red tin box
fingers humanizing deities we bore
shifted shape shifting shape every twist a tool of creation
breathing batteries of skill connecting

tool library near cemetery at sunrise, east oliver street, baltimore
(station north tool library began operating on oliver street in 2013)

curtz v bombadil

now we lose our river daughter
burrowing further down
thorium mobile radio nuclide
metamorphic rock
born
water lilies sun sinking
open hill living pool
years end down deep forest water
dark door opens wide
world self mend unborder

toxic pollutants and NOx at sunrise, south baltimore, patapsco
(in 2010 brandon shores and wagner stations began releasing over two million pounds of toxic pollutants per year onto south baltimore, who remains in the ninety-ninth percentile in the u.s. for exposure to toxic releases–NOx from burning the coal is also killing the chesapeake bay)

maerdir

old pine floors shellac and sun newly poured some clothes saved
from missed heart sailing in mortar and plank
there was a kid i knew as a boy
now is the beauty i hold on
were we met here flying apart fast
your better truth dear
arm in arm trees and grain
nothing same
matter can be time
south facing windows
body infinite stretching eyes sift gold
brick ships for miles we ask we hear

thames street at sunrise

(beach house released teen dream in 2010)

21 grams per kilometer$

in a visional future saddles soaronrubber tarmac hardpack
framesbarshands on pedalcranksprockethubs chains maneuvering
quickfast radiusslik shortstart
bananaseated anthromechanicobutteringflyrays
connecting recreating flythruemployride
flamboyantlime radiantcoppertone skybklueviolet
bicyclingunity
road
silverglowcoastering

former bicycle collective at sunrise
(the first city bicycle master plan was published, and the velocipede bike project opened at lanvale and morton streets, in 2006)

where is the bridge

pictures and stories are windows in walls i don’t see past
a black mirror
warm blood on skin yellow white black
someone washing away toward a vast ocean
i navigate by echo

red black yellow white at sunrise
(the reginald f lewis museum of maryland african american history and culture opened on president and pratt streets in 2005)