sunrise in a small city

blueprints

from axe hammer plane
turning fitting
schematic operation aligned adjusted predicted
hydraulic pneumatic
flying and setting
precision
bearings and cables
soaring cranes wheeling spinning

brownfields at sunrise — (charlie parrish made millwright at sparrows point in 1950)

demasorcery

say war
say fight
say christ
say them
say us
wave wandyfingerpointingswirlinghands
cast the ancientfuturespells
victualsrichuals

lyric at sunrise — (joseph mccarthy urged catholics to war from the lyric theater in 1949)

anthropomorphine

liberty in
losing using
ones own money in ones own way
or someones else notwatchings
finance unmediocre
money as light coursing
numbing strange selfsuffocatingabortion
accelerating phoenixcinders

stock exchange at sunrise — (the baltimore stock exchange, at 210 east redwood street, closed and merged with the philadelphia stock exchange, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, in 1949)

warfields

trip on bay line ship
every minute thru and thru
packet on ocean home
shallow water tumbling
teargas dancing

harbor from exeter and lancaster at sunrise — (in 1947 the president warfield left the harbor from near lancaster street heading for palestine via norfolk and france, and a rechristening as the exodus)

inharmonious undesign

unconstrained combustion
fuels illusorycompressed timespace
leaving seemingempty places
sortofnotreally littered
with concentrated purchases
stateless events
anthrofrenzy

shopping center at sunrise — (the edmonson village shopping center, the city’s first suburban mall, opened in 1947 on edmondson avenue)

fatima unconsecrated

from sea of fire
human embers
rise in billowing smoke
and rain as sprinkled blood
returning to ocean

thanksgiving place at sunrise — (in 1947 50,000 catholics at memorial stadium prayed for the conversion of russia and peace on earth)

so lit up

speak of happiness onemore
long in placetime
lovewish
anythingbe

sphinx club at sunrise — (the sphinx club on pennsylvania avenue was an elite jazz club from 1946 until 1988)

painful pillows hold my head in vice
sloshing radiators overheat bowels
words saidunsaid needle hurting space
in fetal blueskinned sluggish confusion
out to frostyclear dawnlight
moist easterlies
three softslowstepping laps
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
eutaw baltimore greene lombard
everabsssorbing cobalt blue
fizzzbuzzz
trainsss leaving sssouth

cobalt blue at sunrise — (the emerson bromo seltzer tower on lombard and eutaw streets was the tallest skyscraper in the city from 1911 to 1923)

inpatientcity

breathing shallow sweating dizzy
numb blurred not thinking through
diagprescribed
fractionally distilled elixirpolymers
combpestled
mechanical opiates of directforce
supremely lucrative to attending charlycians
breathingeatingpissingshitting monetizedlifeforce
incapitalpathology

powerplant at sunrise — (in 1948 the national city lines holding company funded by gm, standard oil, firestone, and phillips added complete control of the baltimore transit company, which was powering electric streetcars from its plant on pratt street, to its collection of almost fifty soon-to-be disinvested and dismantled city streetcar utilities across the country)

two lights on behind

my baby left me
leaving hate
thinking memory pain
fading understanding why
consciousness unaffected
here with less
is somehow more and more
unemptying emptiness

train and lake after sunrise — (in 1948 a majority of maryland, and baltimore city, voters approved a constitutional amendment authored by baltimore county that restricted the city’s ability to grow)