Night Train

Night Train

Across the crouching darkness, 

twisting the distances, 

a caterpillar 

of light and curves 

departs beyond 

the city edges, 

with carriage windows 

that brightly flicker, 

blinking between 

the flames 

and shadows 

of walls, trees 

and telegraph wires, 

the train travels 

faster, faster,

slipping, 

behind embankments, 

rattling steel, 

metal and echoes, 

faster and faster 

tipping skies 

and evenings

beyond the edge 

of the hidden world, 

with carriages

and  tunnels 

carved into blackness, 

taking time 

from departures, 

keeping arrivals 

suspended 

in the go-between 

of here and now, 

then and there

to be, 

faster and faster,

and deeper then,

into passenger time, 

expectations, 

and conversations,

the yellow eyes 

of electric lives,

hurrying from home

to work,

waiting, travelling 

beginning and endings

faster and faster,

journeys into 

the future 

of now

the train splits 

the darkness 

of a travelling 

night.

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