re dei cavoli

i approach one hundred years
every breath aching deathfear
childhood voices roomshadows
uncompleted tasks waft and drip
raining pain with phantom.
I think of one gold banana on a mountain of green on pubbys truck
childlegs hoist and clamor
thrillingest fruit ever
ecstasy sweat satiate blood sweet oppression
sunsaliva oceanrainteeth fleshstomach
pubby screams testa di cavoli i flee
thieving
finally punished with burr in toe
pubbys evening silence.
or am I punished
or do millions die brutally
irrigare le banana

south locust point at sunrise
(in 1970 the port authority purchased south locust point facilities owned by b&o and operated by the united fruit company)

beating brow

blue painted steel after night sky
gravity focused
dull brown brick in pink light
sharing load
orange stripes
tertiary painting
last of white street light
stored electrons
fundamental simple
means dignity justice voice

steel bridge at sunrise
(members of the welfare rights coalition camped out at department of social service headquarters in 1969 until the agency agreed to responsibly meet demands addressing basic human rights)

vast classification and terminal

winchester cumberland wheeling cincinnati
lousiville saint louis effner chicago
south bend muskegon mackinaw city
detroit sandusky cleveland ashtabula
erie buffalo rochester sodus point wilkes-barre
stroudsburg new york haddonfield cape charlie
washington baltimore
industrial america

cargo pier at sunrise
(the maryland port authority acquired the general cargo facilities of the pennsylvania railroad on clinton street in canton in 1967)

general cargo please

finger piers break-bulk
shorefigurate into yards consolidating sheds
fugitive particulate cornslagate
one-hundred year alignments
squatting bulks of coalorefertilizergrainpetrol leaching awaytide
smother the waterfront industrial vacancy
patiently waiting water as one i love
come with the sea

harbor at sunrise
(in 1964 the maryland port authority took possession of the locust point marine terminal from the b & o railroad)

transporneur

active transport in kinetic entropy
across membranes against gradient landbridge
ions glucose aminos capital
locked containers intermodal
nourishing singularfetalfecal
inwomb gaea slightlyastonished
boxes foxes toxins plastic cockses cotton sockses raremetal xboxes
singular spawn seaforestspermeggpollened
itty
robotic
binaryoded
singular
itty
probioticsymhploded
messagesounds
direal capitalkillingfieldforgottensouls
childmisunderstoodstanding
swaggeringteetering
swallowingwaningsun

marine terminal at sunrise
(in 1963 canton marine terminal pier 10 began handling intermodal shipping containers)

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)

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)