Two Trains Apart

by The Night Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Your train leaves the coast as mine enters the city. Between us: five stations, a tunnel, and the photograph you send of rain on your window. I answer with my paper cup, my blurred platform, the empty seat beside me. Distance has no single image. It is two journeys moving, each carrying half the conversation home.
56 words · 13 lines · Free Verse
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