Shannon Savino

For Maria

It’s a blisteringly hot day as the flatbed truck pulls up to the bombed out shell that used to be a block of condos. Miraculously, a third of the building is still standing, although there’s no guarantee that it will remain so. The rest is a pile of concrete, wood and rebar. A cracked and weathered sign still stands, proclaiming this ruin ‘Greentree Condos.’