Once
I
heard
the
noise
from
outside
I
knew
it
had been
going
on for
some
time
censored
until
now
and
when I
opened
the door
and
walked
through
I
was in
a
world
changed
dramatically
and
unexpectedly
many
laborers
doing
their jobs
knowledgeably
their
many
offspring
looking
on
speechless
unusual
for children
an
excavation
the
size of
a
small
ancient
civilization
where
before
one
could easily
drive
up to
the
house
park
get
out
and
come
inside
without
difficulty
a
river
rushing
into
the
open hole
not
unlike the
Tigress
and
Euphrates
as
I
upbraided
the
man in charge
not
sure why
I
was angry
my
heart
not
in the effort
though
put
out
that
I
had not
been
told
what
was afoot
surely
entitled
with
the
work under way
at
home
a
failure
to
communicate this
a
breach of
professional
conduct
the
jefe
looking
at me
with
incomprehension
as
if
this
were
a
commission
I
could
not have
forgotten
about
and
it
seemed to me
I
knew
all
would be
put
right
when
the work
was
done
everything
beneath
ground
reconfigured
for
the better
the
extent of my grasp
of
this reality.
