A Tight Ship

It will get there as long as our eyes are open

mercredi, mai 24, 2006

trains and ships

There are no pictures I can post anymore because the camera is already malfunctioning. There is not one thing that annoys me the most as things that break, except maybe losing stuff, like one of my favorite earrings and having to look at the orphaned piece of jewelry. I usually transcend my frustration by just wearing the earring by itself and matching it with another lonely of its family. We went for a long walk in the south end last. We sat on a log at tin can beach, watching a cargo ship sluggishly making its way into the harbour, and wondering how natural gas is collected and transformed into a liquid format. I could hear the voices of the men chatting in the station on the water,, their voices carried by the echo of the hight tide. We also spent some time on the roof of parked trains, and Chris made funny pictures - trains are still just as fascinating to me, the tracks, all mechanics and rust, the beatsly moving creatures, carryings goods and stuff to faraway places. Good old-fashioned longing, like in the day that Halifax would have been a sought-after, mysterious destination. We wandered the streets of the low south-end until 11pm - thee are some SCARY places out there, like the one building on Saint James Street that has new vinyl windows that are all boarded up on the ground floor, and you can hear people talking throught the open windows on the second floor and then you see the security camera pointed at the front door, and you decide to walk away cautiously, nonchalamment. After we visited the house on Orange street Don was talking and there were eggshells shattered on the ground, and I imagined it had fallen from the sky and the baby bird was left to wander the streets of Saint John, separated from its mother and siblings.