railways

the train tracks run one way here

from the city center to the ports

where careworn tracks sigh

shed their skins for onlooking fauna

and carry away land’s sweet labors

the train tracks run one way

from tender loins to greedy tongue

enormities who yearn for more still

in the empty corridors of their hearts

the train tracks run

a convincing show

psyche follows

the train tracks

are impossibly vast in front of you

give chase the way smoke lusts after the sky

the train

christens fertile land with approval

whenever there is theft now you apologize

you say “thank you”