Trains - Third Place Poetry Contest - by Cherie Priest

Trains

Third Place Poetry Contest

by Cherie Priest

Railroad tracks look quiet under snow

and so do you, though that is not the case.

There is a sense of - I don't know,

some chilly otherworldly place.

Stepswide

side by

side on

widewood

Let's leave footprints where we can,

I know they won't stay long tonight

unless we choose to stop and stand

and let snow cover us with white

and let us freeze on these tracks

and let ice stick on our backs

footprints

stay when

we stay

in them

We can

stop time

any time