I Saw a Train

Bruno

I saw a train
curve away on my right,
yellow beads of light
stringing night’s depths.

And I had seen a reed
bend beneath the
soft weight of a songbird,
warbling the sun.

And I knew
the curve and the bend
with my heart and mind,
and with all I hold sacred.

And I said in seeing
to myself, and aloud;
only genius could
capture that line.

There lies my mission.