The Trader’s Bell
Maharaj and Co, General Suppliers, Established 1888. stand still a second in here, and the place shows you its ghosts. the floor, beat-to-shit planks of Canadian pine, scarred and grey as a coin worn smooth by too many hands, have been there since the clippers came in heavy with tea from the east. sailors with
The Fence
it was a big bastard of a project, the first time I saw the house, the kind of dumb hope you buy when you still believe in forever. the front fence, cast iron, 1940s, rising off its brick columns, proud and solid, untouched by the rot that had taken everything else. I made the rust