the émigré Canadians' brawl: the waste-drum arcing into the wastebasket cloud
a yellow-brown cloud hangs just above the line between sky and terrain, its top slowly dispersing and opening out so that the cloud looks like a not very pretty sort of wastebasket, waiting
Context
Glimpsed from the party window during Joelle's freebase, the waste apparatus as ambient fact: "a large but relatively shapeless projectile of drums wrapped in brown postal paper and belted with twine" launched in "a broad upward arc" toward the north, where "a yellow-brown cloud... looks like a not very pretty sort of wastebasket, waiting." The E.W.D. catapult's daily municipal reality (cf. 063) rendered as a single image — the sky itself a wastebasket the launched drums arc into, the Reconfiguration's logistics visible from a Cambridge apartment.