[New-Poetry] All aboard!

[Bob Marcacci]

  bari centrale
 the sky is
somewhat overcast like
             an exray of a lung
 we all of us waiting
                      here
             for the next train
  inhale adriatic breeze
   exhale humid summer breathe
of the energy-consuming
                        ever-idling
     world of weary waiters
      we with our bags and sunglasses
 to serve these hours with our mortality
   we who partake in silences
                               glances


                       leave
         all of me damp with sweat
     past
          abandoned trains
       painted slogans
                 crenelated brick shadowed
                with dust and train exhaust
into a greying countryside divided
    by stone walls other trains highways
      olive trees overgrown lots
        with yellow grasses and cacti
toward more stations where women wait
 on green metal benches with holes in the sun
  twist hair while looking down the track
  in the distance
 a man in shorts shovels dirt
    into a wheelbarrow
                        not
      a red one but one
        without color
       in the distance
 all the buildings with their antennaes
reach into the sky
   like periscopes of subterranean
                   small towns
      we move through as the train rumbles
   humming along its rusted steel girders
    a crumbling wall of stones
     walls of brick
  the sunburned plastic overhang
     at valenzano larmie station
   overhung with electrical cables
                     zucchini fields


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-- 
Bob Marcacci
<http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>

What is now proved was once only imagined.
 - William Blake


> From: <jforjames at aol.com>
> Reply-To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:47:03 -0400
> To: <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] All aboard!
> 
> This is also an invitation to the list to create an e-phemeral anthology of
> 'train poems'.
> 
> 
> 
> E-mail your poem about trains and railways