Burning Vision by Marie Clements

Author:Marie Clements
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: drama, Canadian, nuclear bomb, mining, atom bomb, multiculturalism
ISBN: 978-0-88922-808-5
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2013-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

WATERWAYS

– Movement Three –

The movement of scenes through, under, and over dangerous waters. Worlds swirling in brief currents that throw them together and then separate.

The sound of Dene and Japanese drums submerging in and out of the static of propaganda, the sound score of Western civilization building a country.

THE DENE SEER (voiceover)

Can you read the air? The face of the water? Can you look through time and see the future? Can you hear through the walls of the world? Maybe we are all talking at the same time because we are answering each other over time and space. Like a wave that washes over everything and doesn’t care how long it takes to get there because it always ends up on the same shore.

The talking of THE DENE SEER floats through andFades.

Way above, inside the small window of the pilothouse on the Radium Prince, a big Icelandic man stands before his steering wheel, swinging it right and left of the banks, sandbars, dangerous currents, and scenes below. He hollers instructions to the two men below.

THE TWO STEVEDORES stand below him, holding long poles that dip into the water’s dark blueness and into the surface of scenes, raising the poles and lowering them into the changing depths of water as they make their way through the waterways, collecting sacks of uranium and placing them around the compass in degrees.

A dramatic gung-ho sound accompanies the river scenes as in a 1940s or ’50s documentary.

CAPTAIN MIKE (voiceover)

Jesus Clist, I can read da face of des water and I tol’ you guys to put da goddamn poles in da water if we wada to go anywhere dis goddamn century. I’m sittin’ in da pilothouse of dis goddamn Radium Prince and, if we don’t go nowhere in a goddamn hurry, we won’t be goin’ anywhere goddamn soon.

THE TWO STEVEDORES laugh and dip the poles into the water, into the dark surface.

THE TWO STEVEDORES

“If we don’t go nowhere in a goddamn hurry, we won’t be goin’ anywhere goddamn soon.”

They laugh.

CAPTAIN MIKE (voiceover)

You tink dis is funny? I’d like to see how funny you tink it is if we sink dis goddamn boat and everyting and every goddamn man, sack of goddamn uranium, and supplies goes down and you goddamn fellows just laughing like dis is some kind of goddamn picnic. Jesus Clist, if I have to hall my big Icelandic ass down der and do it myself, you better hope you can swim bedder than dose goddamn big trout you got in dis goddamn lake.

ONE STEVEDORE

Hol-ee! All he had to say was he was ready.

THE OTHER STEVEDORE

I was born ready.

ONE STEVEDORE

No you weren’t, you were born in Fort Smith.

THE OTHER STEVEDORE

Never mind you.

ONE STEVEDORE

We’re more than ready. Let’s go!

CAPTAIN MIKE (voiceover)

Okay now, dat’s bedder. Let’s shove off. We only got forty-eight more miles to go, des goddamn sacks cruised to us from da Bear River Landing after dey rided de goddamn Great Bear Lake. It’s our responsibility to taken dem down the Bear River, and dose

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