Challenge: We were given a list of times and locations and asked to write a few paragraphs based on that prompt, I chose Present Day, Hunter's Point, San Francisco, Abandoned Dock
My entry:
You won’t find Heron’s Head park on any of the tourist
guidebooks to San Francisco. The rumble
of a big rig drowns my footfalls on the gravel parking lot as I start my
approach to the edge of the bay. The
truck fades in much the same way the squawk of the seagulls echo in and out as
they circle overhead searching for food from the trash or fish in the
water.
I close my eyes and imagine this place sixty years ago when the
horns proclaimed shift change at the Hunter’s Point shipyards, the marching of
work boots on concrete announced thousands of men and women stepping away from
the victory ships as they felt the vibrations of the engines on the bus benches
that would carry them to their quarters.
Today, those workers, like the war they helped to win, are gone
and their battlefield has turned into a marriage of rust, refuse, and restored
bird habitat.
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