DRIVER [Fruit Camp]

DRIVER [Fruit Camp]

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...
The Glass Elephant

The Glass Elephant

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...
Shoveling Manure

Shoveling Manure

Photo: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On another too-long country daytrip, the father flapped jaws with the farmer, taking on his accent and mannerisms. Even at four, the girl found this silly. “Why is Daddy talking like that?” she asked the mother as...
With a bag full of books from City Lights

With a bag full of books from City Lights

Photo: Wgreaves, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Nani and I do the tourist thing: drinkwith Beat ghosts at Vesuvio bar, glancelovingly at one of many book-loverMeccas, and try to read in the loudand dark but for noise-cancelling airpodsand weak, weak window...
Empty

Empty

Photo:Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift. A gobsmacked cousin of a Keith Haring hound, its fuel ever-hovering above empty, always catches...
Serpent Hurled to Sea

Serpent Hurled to Sea

Photo: Faith Palermo In 1817, a sea serpent appears in Gloucester harbor. On August 14th, creature breaches water, skin kisses air, and is witnessed. The Linnaean Society of New England, a board designed to record and interpret landscape, collects testimony, and the...