The train bounces unsteadily on the tracks
as the sun pierces through the windows
and reaches my eyes;
a light almost pristine.
It’s warmer now –
warmer and quieter –
except for the continuous sounds of battle
between the ground and what carries us.
And I feel secure
engulfed by the mass of something bigger
one with it
myself becoming obsolete.
I look down at my hands
rough and dry,
reddish against the bright light
acknowledging the day is not far.
Swallows will show
at the porch of the front door
bearing the strangest correlation again;
the recurring future.
The train drags itself heavy,
somewhat carelessly
suspending time
and expectations.
In the time remaining
before the swallows arrive,
one more moment
before reddish also becomes the sky,
the landscape seems all too familiar
and the lines of the horizon fall hard against the tracks.
The birds will soon arrive.
April 2021,
Athens.
Photograph: Irakleio, Attica; 08.04.21.
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