Photo: ScottyBoy900Q at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The grass is wet, dawn rinsing the sky pale as linen. Brick walls rise carefully,as if the fort does not wishto disturb the water.Cannons point outward,patient as old...
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...
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...
Photo by Maximilien Brice, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Inspired by a visit to CERN, Switzerland I come back home with my head filled with physics and heart filled with awe and start chattering to you. I gush about colliding particles and invisible dark matter...
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