Image: a railway platform with the words MIND THE GAP painted for the
benefit of those alighting from the train, so that the letters are upside-down
from the perspective of those waiting to board the train.
Now is the season for journeys home by train
(it has been too long)
A train is steel and space,
and sings, a duet between wheel and rail;
and as the carriage bears my body home,
so the song bears my soul,
a lullaby,
rocks me to rest,
heart falling into time.
Passengers a-lighting,
please mind the gap
between body and soul,
between the physical and the mystery
that animates material
artefact.
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