Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Train: Nice à Marseilles

The symmetry of the ocean

hanging off the edge of the train tracks.

Clouds and sea fluttering in the windows

like butterfly wings pressed against the glass

but I am the one trapped,

watching the fisherman

and docks pass,

girls preparing to dive,

children skipping stones,

the old man searching the edge of the rocks with his bicycle

a dead fish maybe? sea glass?

or the reminisce of metal cans, broken bottles, and cigarette butts

like washed up shipwrecks.

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