Today we are at J. Aiello and Sons Produce Wholesalers in Albany, NY, looking at the geometries of shipping and storing fresh produce supplies before they reach restaurants and other food retailers. It's interesting to see how things stack up. Read and see more about our friend Joe Aiello's company and the business of stacking pallets at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Geometry of labor
The broad and convivial
currency exchange
of thick flat pallets --
arriving with food, with fruit,
with flowers of earth lifted with itinerant strength
on seeming toothpick tethers --
they voyage round the world
supporting endless supply
and making no demand
but that you mind your boots,
and do not crush their shells:
like mollusks they withstand
a furious range of swells
only to be scuttled
by an errant sole.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
view with images 1978, 1983, and 1984 from photos.amynelsonhahn.info or visit blog.amynelsonhahn.info
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