steel rhizomes patapsco to ontario
stems rise and spread flowering brick and pavement
woodberry blue mount bentley springs glen rock
trout run roaring branch cedar ledge pine valley
montour falls rock stream
some wither before blooming not sustained
energy from physics little understood
spinning steel booms along
wayside forest rivers streams fields mountains rocks
vibrating in new harmony
prime movers roll like firing cannon
on ribbons and zig zags
superelevation comforts
so many wheels turning
overthrowing
a red fox trots toward the rising sun
along the seam the b&o
weaves through west baltimore warehouses.
the seam a vein of steel
hauling endeavor into dreamland
among the trumpeting morns
severe beauty from functional design
changes in the internal energy of a liquid that solidifies and cools
molten lead like freezing rain.
a body in the suns warmth
flying
stockjobbers request your presence
near the pilings in the sediment
to build load and unload.
until they wash out to sea
warranted for any voyage or climate
most delicate animal substances for sea stores and inland consumption
served up at any moment
manufacturers artizans fostering exalting inventive genius
increase trade business and commercial mart
blending colors richly and well
designing chastely and architecturally.
some thousands may promenade the handsome galleries
see the day when ignorance will its adherents lose and bigotry its disciples
newfangledisms
with enterprise and capital
the lady
standing on the fascis column
doesn’t see the rising or the setting sun
here an hundred converts
a noble army of light arrayed
here is another hundred
pillars
another hundred rising
cedars
growing in the dross
