By Vladimir Brezina
Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial.
Paddling through New York Harbor, the ecosystem that we observe is not Nature, but Industry. Where elsewhere we might hope for close-up sightings of animals coming down to the water’s edge, in the harbor we observe the raw workings of industry. Industrial enterprises line the banks and occupy the scraps of waste land in the corners of the harbor. They present their best faces to the land, but as we paddle past, through, and sometimes even under them, we peer into their back yards…
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 