Vista

Where the first rays of light hit the building, an inky black watertower floats up. The silhouette is probably more real than the original, at least in the early morning. The crispness of its sable outline against the red clay bricks seems sharp enough to cut the beams of sunlight filtering through the last wispy night clouds. The original is blurring. No one in the building can read where it says, "City of Myrtle Beach". No one can stand to look at it for more than a glance ― with our fiery star behind it ― and thus can't make out its true shape. But there's the shadow. There's always the faithful shadow.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA

6 October 2010




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