Tag: trains
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On the Explorer
After Campbelltown farm animals begin to appear in the fields, faces down in the grass. Everyone knows each other; or knows someone who knows each other. Everyone is a recovering alcoholic. Everyone is dead or dying. A woman hasn’t paid the difference. The conductor tells her not to worry about it – because it’s Christmas, he Read.
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On the way to Surgical 2
When I’m beyond the landscapes I know, I look out the window, trying to pierce the bright reflection of the carriage’s insides, the reflection of my face and the faces of the passengers around me, to get a sense of where I am. Lights flash by. It’s all I see; the rhythm of light in Read.
Tristan Foster 