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Picture
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Friday
October 4,
2024
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it
was a journey of many steps. not too slow but
considered, making steady progress but allowing ourselves to fall into time traps--places where past dramas reveal themselves in ways so obvious you could trip over them. how many decades and passersby witnessed this slow motion upheaval of spreading roots as they swelled and shrugged the sidewalk out of alignment? when was the tipping point reached that a citizen complained about the uneven surface? who dispatched the crew that applied asphalt to smooth the transitions, hot tar perfuming the air? what hands gripped the chainsaw that bit through the trunk, leaving only a stump at a now exposed corner in this leafy neighborhood of riverfront esplanades and the ample swards of 19th century mansions where i imagine horses once grazed before motor cars took over and stables became garages. looking back through worn spots in the fabric of time in a country that's always reinventing itself, maybe it's the river, though never the same, that is the least changed. |