💖💖💖 It is so evocative--so full of images charged with emotion. And the meter and lack of punctuation seem to emphasize the motion of the train. For some reason, perhaps because you began the article with a contemplation on what is a poem, Keats's "When I have fears" sonnet popped into my mind. He mentions several of the same images and emotions, and somehow it is all drawn up and condensed into one thought, one poem.
💖💖💖 It is so evocative--so full of images charged with emotion. And the meter and lack of punctuation seem to emphasize the motion of the train. For some reason, perhaps because you began the article with a contemplation on what is a poem, Keats's "When I have fears" sonnet popped into my mind. He mentions several of the same images and emotions, and somehow it is all drawn up and condensed into one thought, one poem.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/when-i-have-fears-that-i-may-cease-to-be
Oh I do love it. Thank you so much for a poem I didn't know I needed to love.
That is beautiful - thank you for sharing. Of course, I find my curiosity piqued, wanting to know what led this individual to write these lines.