Along The Waterfront

a Monday afternoon walk

The blue bluster of the afternoon brought us around the curve of the bit of river and marsh people call the yacht basin. On the front of the seafood shack there is a sign on which a shrimp, much much larger than life, flourishes its extravagant, calligraphic antennae. The shack is closed for business today, it being a Monday, and the brown pelicans wh…