in a world filled with pain our arid inland whelms over the swollen sheen of the borrowed moon;
faces in transit, the immense rivulet to home rogue without source people undulating like the weight of a subdued beast regaining consciousness, these shoals rimmed with such whiteness give way.
unheeded are dislimned slaughters voices muffled to fatal nuances fast days in the rails spirals and cascades of both twined rain and tendril in our eyes see the gravid weight of the world accompanied by such grave silence arranging a rendezvous at the next unmindful station, trains are sad rivers belonging to no one a long conversing line of kinder tides passing quietly think of the time the bones are colder than alloys returning with such intact heat or melancholy, was it when turning away was no troubling task
machine or flesh forethought or afterthought outlast and outwrestle the circling moon surly from above and swift with flayed light, these things that welcome us home piercing the solace dredging the traces leaving us bare with intone the day’s commute sings tenderly –