What follows is another piece for which the writing process extends over twenty years. The first draft of 4325 Baltimore Avenue was written in the Rittenhouse Square Barnes & Noble break-room in 2004. Had it around, read it up in Henniker a few times, and Jeffrey Ethan Lee published this early draft of the piece in 2005. After dusting it off in the Twenties for possible inclusion in Something Solid, I applied a maelstrom approach, of discipline (has to fit the double-sonnet format) and a limber approach to recreating connective tissue, including syntactic levels. So, here we have it on P.F.S. Post: buffed, polished, and radically tautened. To restate, 4325 Baltimore Avenue was an artist's co-op where Mary Evelyn Harju lived for a few years in the early Aughts. I was a frequent visitor, of course, and spent several months worth of nights there. Abby Heller-Burnham was a constant presence, too. This shot was taken of Mary on the third, top-floor of the row-home, in 2001. Mary doing a wonted fashionista routine.
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