Uncertainty.
Public transport is an eavesdropper’s paradise. Disconnected conversations float along train platforms and down the aisle of trams; past coffee hungry commuters and seat searching straphangers. Some are fragments of conversations between two present people, some are one sided fragments shouted into smartphones. Platform One, Mont Albert Station. “Where are you? You said you would be here by eight.” (Inaudible phone noises) “Well, that’s a real shame, but you said you would be here by eight!” (Inaudible phone noises) I look at my watch. It’s a minute past eight. Tram Route 109, Whitehorse Road. “I hate this new weather app.” “Why?” “What the @#%^ does ‘10% chance of rain’ mean? I just want to know if it’s going to rain or not! We live in uncertain times. - At low tide a strip of rocks bends from the shore, away from the beach and out towards deeper water. In places the rocks are slick with weed, in others rough wi