Anodyne
Friday, November 04, 2005
 

To a New Westminster estate call. Our arrival time coincides with torrential rain; we ferry liquor store boxes in through the rain, up the stairs to the front door, through the lobby to the elevator, up a few floors, down a hall to the fire door, through the fire door, and down an inexplicable short set of stairs to the client's door.

"You know, I didn't actually think you boys'd be coming."

Snakes & ladders with loaded boxes. The car sags, creaking, on its springs. John elects to stay behind while I drive the fully loaded and only partially-brakeable Subaru back to town, then back out again for the second load.

Sun under cloud, cutting low across the scubbed blue sky. Crows in Fraserview Cemetery, bundles of flowers on the new graves behind the chainlink fence by the road. Flat black plaques in place of tombstones, rising like RV pads from the muddy earth.
- posted by cjb @ 10:12 PM


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