Wayfinding: Biking home from the Metal show
Like Louise Glück’s Lights. >> Hecate Crowned plays a louche set. >> Bike east on NW Market. >> left on 20th. >> Right on 56th. >> Why is there no graffiti on this artless overpass? >> Head into the park’s shadows. >> Wipe out at the edge of the historic carousel. >> Now you’re on foot. >> Follow the EV charging station’s turquoise glow. >> Get back on your bike and emerge on N 59th. >> Valium Tom could be around any corner. >> Take a right on Phinney Ridge thinking you’re taking a left. >> Realize your mistake when the pizza place emerges on the wrong side of the street. >> It’s late, it’s closed, there are no cars. >> Do a 180 in the middle of the road. >> Head south. >> Veer left on NW 50th. >> Coast downhill on Fremont Ave like it’s Summer. >> Pass the grocery where Gregor Samsa buys a week’s supply of soda water with his platinum credit card. >> At the park, a Girl Called Bill Russell unfolds the picnic blanket. >> At the nearby Airbnb, Data Kid is high downstairs. >> Collapse at the bar and smash your forehead on the floor. >> The empty plaza where the sandwich shop was. >> Cross the ship canal bridge. >> Exit onto 4th Ave N and acknowledge the beautifully named Florentia St. >> Cross Nickerson onto Dexter. >>
Before & After Human Scale. > What was the name of that gin palace? >> Cross Mercer. >> Health care in the brume. >> Holiday Inn Express. >> Disappointed parents fall asleep. >> Cross Denny Way. >> The D Line is heading in the opposite direction. >> Veer onto 7th. >> Market capitalization. >> Pedal past bio swales. >> Residential lovers standing drunk in the bike lane. >> The streetcar tracks are confusing at night when the city is empty. >>
East on Pike St. >> Cross Broadway. >> Posters and costumes and flowers. >> Left on 14th. >> Caroling with Percy Bysshe Shelley. >> Consider a nightcap at either place where the signs are still >> hissing.