Crane cab
Stick
Take your hands off the stick.
Just before night shift change. A container-crane cab. Nopi will not let go of the joystick. “Take your hands off the stick.” Take the cage elevator here and it is just changeover.
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About this work
Just before night shift change. A container yard. Hydraulics and the sea. Nopi is thirty-two, a crane operator. Cab cap, short hair, strong thighs. Her husband's yard is another berth.
“Take your hands off the stick.” The cage still goes down. Ride it now and the work is done. Stay, and the night becomes a height where the ground is tiny.
Characters
- NopiCrane operator · married
- MeNarrator · night relief
- HusbandOther berth · mentioned
