Tuesday, October 3, 2017

poetry in motion

drove past a train
on the no. one
rail cars legato for miles
like words in a Joyce novel

I barely noticed
trains are there so often
like the fixed order on the
periphery of our lives

the world doesn’t stop
even though we are heading to
the hospital or funeral home
hand pulling at the face and chin

feeling stubble of life’s resistance

but that day I looked
and saw the beautiful
graffiti on one of the cars
all it said     poetry     said it all

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