Physique
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A small piece of paper dances above Martinaise -- above slow waves crashing the shore; and the war torn houses and the new batiments nouveau alike; above you, looking up to the grey sky with your hair greasy and wet..
And above the distant streets and the 8/81 -- even above the old fish market and the church. Its material existence is lost. This great city will pocket it for you. For your own sake -- forget about it.
Outside, a cold wind wraps the building in its bosom. Snowflakes in the wind. An old woman passes what the locals call the Doomed Commercial Area. She tries hard not to look at the bookstore windows. It's unwise.
On an island on the River Esperance, a small woman, all skin and bones, sits in a room filled with audio equipment. Thousands of tiny lights are reflected back from her prescription lenses, like stars in the dark.
All around you, rain keeps falling down. On the wooden boards she's standing on, and on the water around you...
A breeze ripples through the sails and tugs at your hair. Below, the sleek, fishlike shape of the hull parts the water. Beneath that -- a resounding darkness. You're reminded of something, or someone...
A cold breath rushes in from the bay, making its way down the alleyways and potholed streets -- from Martinaise to Jamrock. In the traffic you hear the clinking of glass vials, concealed beneath tarpaulin. Or is it just your teeth chattering in the cold?
Houses drenched in red, blood gushing down Rue Saint-Cispare... the whole place mopped with a giant red rag! Fresh bullet holes for all the old buildings...
The humidity crawls under your skin. Your eyes track her gaze: past the net picker... toward the concrete square of the nameless village off the coast of Martinaise.
There are rain circles on water all around, humidity crawls up your back like a piano trill.
The concrete plates cross to meet in an abstract shape, in them: small footprints -- impressions left by rubber boots. Small rubber boots.