Christopher Columbus as a bambino, in his old location under the Skytrain tracks at 5th and Clark, a little concrete park on a busy street, always deserted, where I used to like and stop for a smoke and sometimes a wee read while walking between Mount Pleasant and the Drive, now I learn he's in Hastings park, no one told me, from the City of Vancouver Public Art Registry. I had one of the great visions of my life sitting there: foggy, late fall but warm around maybe 3 in the morning, a Skytrain maintenance car, cladded, no windows, grinding the track with festoons of spark hissing into the fog, going back and forth like a floor polisher.