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the retaining wall complete, nothing was left to do but hose and sweep
the street before grout and mortar and concrete discoloration could take
hold. we got busy on other dangling tasks, mainly the bathroom vents and
obsolete gas heater exhaust. drilling, sawing, patching the roof, steven
up top, me in the attic underneath. i paused up there, floor exposed beams
with 3/4 inch plywood catwalk above the fragile ceiling, caught a thought
about glaciers and sought for something to write on. nothing handy but this
sandpaper. i wrote the following on back, adding only later the sideways
sketch you see, a schematic for a tiny city erected on a dime....
things move
sometimes
inches
like a
glacier
other times
it's strictly
through time
the pause
between
breaths
a lifetime
in less
than a
second |