This is an excerpt from the travelogue Baltimore by Annie Marhefka, during which she visits the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). Order your copy from writerinsites.com. First, I wander and I take no notes while I do, because I am here to be present, to experience...
Photo by Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Every city has religious landmarks, places where the pious or curious can enter into. Some leave those places with a tangible reminder of their visit—a stone or card. Others leave with a...
In the plaza between buildings, there are freestanding sculptures. The most interesting one is an egg covered in fragments of mirror. I guess I’ll take a selfie in one of the mirrors. [pause] Behind and above me is a balcony made to look like a bird’s nest. The egg...
Photo: Remington neighborhood community center. “Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons” driving to the baltimore queer tattoo shop for a tattoo from the tattoo artist i can never quite tell about. hoping it doesn’t...
Photo: Baltimore Heritage – Gundry/Glass Hospital (2015), CC BY 2.0 It had gotten to the point that if I didn’t get out to explore an abandoned building more often, I began to lose sleep, like a thief with one more safe I had to crack. I suppose I was what...
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