Category: housing

rock promontory

in west baltimore you find rock
hetch-hetchy-like promontories
but oh my.
elijah.
banners of snow in a winter wind
ice on fire in a spring sunrise
huddled pine swelling ten thousand summers
autumn stalwart big moon mirror
elijah.
death and peace in the mountains
fountain of life
we breathe we climb

park and cathedral at sunrise
(elijah cummings has been fighting the fascist coup since before j20)

medi c/t ate

many times great god mother
walking calmly toward center
in a maze assembled over one thousand years
gathering oxygen to core
winds around
gathering oxygen to core
works out
gathering oxygen to core
switches forever

center of wellness at sunrise
(erricka bridgeford prompted every one to be mindful of the violence in and around them, organizing a ceasefire that started in 2017 and continues)

solid state radio free

morning grey molding parts environment
brittle intermetallic layers separate
breaking arc
slow corrosion permanent gate biasing
serial resistance dislocations point defects discharge electro
static
broadcast
static
order of the day

cubicles at sunrise
(in 2016 the governor of maryland zero’d out decade-long efforts of hundreds of democratically elected representatives and thousands of community members and state workers to redevelop with public transit and community focus the state center, state owned office space in west baltimore, without explanation—this is what oligarchy looks like)

whose guardrail

to
gathering gaining advancing
all nations society salvation
through
sincerity
first step front line there


strength from all things

no matter where they read it
whose god they say said it
a means to prevent or deter access to peace love understanding
is making shit up

near facebook address for 300 gangstas at sunrise
(300 gangstas came together during the uprising after freddie gray was murdered for no apparent reason by police in 2015)

brightred cityline

red line as bloodline
red line under bottomline
red line of fiery sun in pipeline
red line twisted into lighttwine
red line restoration neighborhood community prometheancityinvestmentline

border of small city with no rapid mass transit at sunrise
(the governor of maryland defunded the red line in 2015 without bothering to ask the city and county about providing more tax increment financing and private investment, the ‘president’ of the united states approved the racist and self-serving decision in 2017)

fractal starbus

under our tarmac brick and mostly clay
fungi wires seeping pipes measured light
soil thru shoes thru brain in sky
capital entropy underneath
enzymes unshared
instead of leaves stretching sun gathering water together.

so some days
is it the weather my fingers feel like dying
material ceasing to cycle
nutrients not flowing

north avenue from fulton avenue at sunrise
(freddie gray was murdered by police in 2015 for no apparent reason)

up from cabin branch

north of schooners wooden freighters concrete steamers sidewheel barges
violets arbutus honeysuckle pansies chinquapin berries
poplar popland elm elmtree cedar ceddox
twenty eight shades of red orange brick towering
walking back into matrix of soil
rooted revolution

brick faced steel water tower and community garden and industrial port at sunrise
(in 2009 the filbert street community garden became)

one 800 cellular violence

oxygen honeycombs
human estuary of gas exchange
cytoplasmic veils gently vibrating
air and carbon glide through
macrophagia angle toward contagion
so we on the edge like reeds in the salty mud
breath air and music for
every second song of the universe

nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, mercury, and hydrochloric acid at sunrise
(in 2013 a massachusetts institute of technology study revealed the wheelabrator bresco trash incinerator has killed roughly eight thousand baltimore city residents since it began operating in 1985—destiny watford organized the curtis bay community to prevent an incinerator from being built there in 2016)

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)