environment – Page 8 – sunrise in a small city

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)

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)

twelve minutes

a large backward el
along highlands above a river
through rail oil alluvium
spinestraight façade oceaneast
saattaannaammaa
momentmelodywatergather
rubbberwhirrspistonsechoes
patapsco
darkness
light

tunnel portal after sunrise — (the harbor tunnel opened in 1957 reducing automobile travel time through baltimore via fairfield and canton to philadelphia or dc)

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)

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