Waiting for water

Eliseo couldn’t pay his taxes. He was a shoemaker in a city whose laws changed faster than people changed their shoes. Now he owed money that he couldn’t pay, and soon the authorities would come to arrest him. “We have to go away from here, to a safe place,” he told his wife, “where they can’t find me.” His wife, Lina, said, “I dreamed of dragonflies again. They said we could follow them. They…