the Concavity as folklore: the geopolitical shuffle — monster-infants of the mass migration
the idea of infants the size of prehistoric beasts roaming the overfertilized east Concavity quadrants, leaving enormous scat-piles and keening for the abortive parents who’d left or lost them in the general geopolitical shuffle of mass migration and really fast packing
Context
The relocation's human cost mythologized into horror: the giant infants "keening for the abortive parents who'd left or lost them in the general geopolitical shuffle of mass migration and really fast packing." The phrase "geopolitical shuffle of mass migration" is the political fact under the folklore — the Reconfiguration forced a mass evacuation, and the abandoned or lost are transmuted in street legend into the monstrous keening young of the Concavity. The dispossession the A.F.R. avenges is remembered, in Boston, as a ghost story about giant babies.