Night Train

Send us Fan MailNight TrainAcross the crouching darkness, twisting the distances, a caterpillar of light and curves departs beyond the city edges, with carriage windows that brightly flicker, blinking between the flames and shadows of walls, trees and telegraph wires, the train travels faster, faster,slipping, behind embankments, rattling steel, metal and echoes, faster and faster tipping skies and eveningsbeyond the edge of the hidden world, with carriagesand  tunnels carved into blackness, taking time from departures, keeping arrivals suspended in the go-between of here and now, then and thereto be, faster and faster,and deeper then,into passenger time, expectations, and conversations,the yellow eyes of electric lives,hurrying from hometo work,waiting, travelling beginning and endingsfaster and faster,journeys into the future of nowthe train splits the darkness of a travelling [email protected]