Portrait of a Bus Driver: About the Sixth

I spent Monday at workshops meant to assist me 

to develop my job hunting skills.

The first had one sentence of value to me,

the second was of more use. The work force in this

city is geared more towards the insurance, medical,

technical businesses. My skills are more specialized, 

meant more as support for all of the above -

design for advertising and promotional pieces,

so work is going to be more difficult to find.

I finished the first workshop, then took a bus

back into town to get lunch. 

The bus driver was a picture of concentration 

as she wove through the work day traffic.

Earlier that morning I'd stood at the corner 

of 10th Street and White River Parkway 

to make the connection to get to the workshops.

The structures are storage silos for grain 

storage, specifically corn that the farmers bring

to be dried. On some days the breeze smells like

popcorn, wafting across the river and through

the neighborhoods.