sidewalk

The driveway gate of the waist-high chain-link fence dividing the front yard from the sidewalk was bent and mangled, lashed to a metal fence pole with white rope.

Gavidia walks up on the scene from the sidewalk outside the business where agents are parked.

On the day of Ana’s son’s graduation, the school auditorium opened hours early, so that families did not have to wait on the sidewalk.

State workers cleaned up the graffiti spray painted on buildings and sidewalks the night before with no interference from the protesters, other than a few saying, “Hey, that’s artwork not graffiti.”

I met him on the sidewalk in front of his place, his palms stained black with soot from picking up burned lights and banners from the night before.