subway
09/02/2010
I am underground
the flicker boards
pause and resume
lights hiss like a flash bulb-
Stone upon stone
holds up the earth
so we may pass through.
The eye of the needle
narrows down dark,
the insects pause and resume.
A blur of humanity
mirrors by like
two crickets in the night-
two electric worms.
Hollow chambers chafe their
walls on chalk and embers
so many sparks-
We glide by like dragonflies
intertwined.
Motion moving motion
and their conjugate kiss…
Speeding on the rails' edge,
I am not ready for the light
when it hits!
We are ghost shadows sharing air.
Out of the gray mouth
of coal, rock and lime,
steel upon steel takes the bridge.
