Train music

J.I. Kleinberg

 

 

The trains are busy after dark.
Lying in bed, blocks away, 

I feel their rumble of night poetry.
Their warning horns riff solos 

into the darkness, some hoarse
and rude, heavy-handed, some lyrical. 

Dah dah dit dah round the Bay’s curve.
Coltrane quatrain, coal train, Q train.

 

 

 

 

J.I. Kleinberg’s poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.