Only by Rebecca Foust

Author:Rebecca Foust [Foust, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781954245365
Publisher: Four Way Books

Beyond the last house, a low circle of mountains, the world in a blue bowl

you once felt safe in,

cinder swales sloped down from fields frozen in stubble; a thresher’s mute

claws, rust-streaked silos

stenciled with hex signs and ads for Mail Pouch Tobacco and Jesus Who Saves;

Jesus who did not save.

You are on the train from where you began in the years when all ways

led out, and you lean back, soothed

by the hum of time and momentum, but beneath you the cross-ties

have been working loose like teeth

from the moment they first were pinned, and so the engine must slow,

creaking and groaning

and must slow again until you are almost not moving at all, and sometimes

the train stops and then

—you are not imagining this—it begins to move backward.

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