Basket Vendor: Photograph by Will Tenney

Basket Vendor

In the shade just opposite the central park, the Jardín Principal, a basket vendor sits with his wares thinking about the poems he would have liked to have written this day. Or the song he hears in his head. Or the solution to that math problem for his Econ class. Or how much ice cream that fat tourist over there could eat. Or that lovely señorita walking across the plaza. Or...