Float the Upward Spiral

I’m standing on River Street, staring up at sunbeams glinting off a massive building, and it’s making me dizzy.   

Now, it would be entirely valid to think I’m referring to a certain 17-story university dorm that’s recently sprung up next to the bridge, that new and aesthetically confusing landmark as one enters the city. 

However, this view-blocking skyscraper is even more vexing. 

Suddenly the whole facade has drifted sideways, causing my brain to somersault. Blinking hard, I realize it’s not a building at all but a giant freighter ship muscled high with stacked containers, slowly making its way upriver like an elephantine pack animal. 

I should know better than to fall for such hallucinations after hanging around this waterway for the past two decades. But there’s something about Savannah's floating edifices of giant Legos that I find always supremely disorienting. Especially now that there is a whole slew of actual new buildings on the other side of the river, changing up the horizon faster than I can keep up. 

Then again, it might just be my perspective.