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trains

from Achanalt - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

The man who made the request stop
for Achanalt never left the train;

No fellow-travellers - by Richie McCaffery

{ Poem }

The stones face each other
in rows like booth-style
compartments in old trains.

In Gordon Street - by Gerry Cambridge

{ Poem }

for I could board tonight
to any of those unearthly destinations
whatever train I chose

Early Morning Train to Inverness - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

from time to time snow sprinkles from the sky
/ the way flour sifts from a baker’s fist
/
/ grey steel pylons pose…

My Father, Dreaming - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

The train glides through a world of frozen white,
/ low mists swirl and smudge the mirror of the Clyde,
/ Helensburgh stretches…

The Great Journey - by Hamish Whyte

{ Poem }

The old couple
/ board the train
/ and make for a table
/ with facing seats.
/ The woman says
/ you sit here
/ and see where we’re going
/ I’ll sit…

Follies - by Penny Boxall

{ Poem }

We round the Brunel coast, in a train
/ crowded with bags and elbows. Tunnels gape
/ through mountains. Someone coughs. Now at sea:
/ the…

This Life - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

Each life echoing, acting out these myths: / going into darkness, re-emerging, wounds / and griefs healed over.
/ …

Back - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

Everything seems ok.
/ Rabbis study in the Lublin yeshiva again
/ even if the Jewish Quarter
/ is still razed to the ground.
/ Trains leave just…

Trèanaichean - by Niall O’Gallagher

{ Poem }

Soraidh slàn leis na trèanaichean orains a
/ ghiùlain sinn eadar Baile Ghobhainn ’s Partaig,
/ Sràid na Drochaid is Ceann a’ Chnuic ’s…

With My Mother, Missing the Train - by Helena Nelson

{ Poem }

She was always late. At the final minute
/ we’d run for the city train, which roared right past,
/ its line of faces…

3D - by José Craveirinha

{ Poem }

In the loco…
/ the machine-god,
/ cap and boilersuit,
/ holds the pistons’ mystery in his hand.
/
/ In the Pullman…
/ the First-Class god
/ mellows projects in conditioned air.
/
/ And…

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