Clatter by Neil Hilborn

Author:Neil Hilborn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943735228
Publisher: SCB Distributors

Downtown Greenway Extension, Minneapolis, Summer

The train runs by this bike path. I know

a train is coming because the rails

are singing. The train shifts, first blue,

then red, and I am thinking about how

I know what red shift is and can picture it

despite never having seen it. Two Somali

women are walking down the path. They are

here in Minnesota because someone

in their country wants to kill people

like them in their country. The train blows

back their hijabs like we actually are in

a Western not a Midwestern. If we spend

our entire lives believing in the impossible

or, in the absence of that, the unseen,

if we are all only the sum of what we put

out into the world, then where do we go now,

and where do we go when we die? I was sure

I would be dead before turning twenty one,

sure I would never drink, sure my father

would come back to me, I am twenty

two now, my father texted me once on my birthday,

I drink more often than I don’t, and where

did all that belief go? I spent so much time knowing

what is now wrong, knowing like I know

the scars on my face and red shift, and I hear

the train now. I know it’s coming because the rails

are singing. I can’t see it yet, but it’s there.

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