sustainability – Page 3 – sunrise in a small city

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)*

been zine

slashing story of coconut hacks palm
hectares in forced labor
hydrocarbon driversupplying chains
ships trains hauling boiling
filtering through human sweat skin
incense sacred st our hope
daphnia magna culex pipiens tubifex rivulorum lymnaea vulgaris rana cyanophlyctis cirrhina mrigala back river
sky of how many billion billion moons
all free clear sweet blue cell in almost empty everyplace

warehouse over former soap factory at sunrise — *(production of all, wisk, and snuggle at 5300 holabird avenue ceased in 2014)*

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)*

seenthrutelescope

my mere embroidering
would be thread around and around inside the square
spiraling
starts meeting ends
absorbing spring

oncoming traffic on steel bridge at sunrise — *(hannah brancato, joan m. e. gaither, deletta gillespie, rebecca nagle, kalima young launched the monument quilt in 2013)*

counting air keep spitting

some never leave mothers ocean
others breathe
three hundred ten million
more to share than
condolences
did you say
“and there was never a respite from the battle”
bringing my transchild
to meet your son

downtown from east baltimore at sunrise — *(young moose released otm2 and opened out of the mud clothing on monument street in 2014)*

positional asphyxiation

usha sings our racist war
is neuro cardio muscular toxic fatal without antidote for the attacked
from armored pits of batons and spray
here in theater we share the suffocation terror
of being stepped sat kneeled on after beaten
at a slower dosage

killing field at sunrise — *(tyrone west was murdered in a struggle with police after a traffic stop in 2013 next to chinquapin run park—tawanda jones continues to speak out about police brutality and accountability)*

closeup see

frackgas exploding under postpunk tunnelcore
whirlybirds would jam away
give us your liquid when you must die
you take your sleep

nightclub at sunrise through rail right-of-way around-growth — (in 2013 ‘if we shout loud enough’ documented, among other things, double dagger’s final performance, at the ottobar, in 2011—meanwhile let us hope for rail safety and two-person hazardous freight crews in the city that invented so called u.s. rail)

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