The Corner Market
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A street market on a Saturday, and the people who keep it running.
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- The market on Bell Street opens before the neighborhood wakes up.
- By seven the sellers have built neat walls of oranges and apples.
- Nothing here is arranged by accident, and the best colors face out.
- An old man sells honey from three hives he keeps outside the city.
- He explains the difference between them to anyone who slows down.
- Two stalls further on, a woman fries pancakes on a flat iron.
- The smell reaches the corner, which is exactly the point.
- Prices are not printed, so regular customers know what is fair.
- A newcomer usually pays a little more the first time.
- By eleven the crowd is thick and moving in one slow direction.
- Children are lifted onto shoulders so they do not disappear.
- The fish stall closes earliest, because the ice cannot last.
- Whatever is left over is sold cheaply in the final half hour.
- By two the street is empty except for crates and wet paper.
- On Monday the same space is nothing but a quiet parking lot.