Train X leaves
\nthe station
\n12 PM. Track 2. Heading East.
\nIt gains velocity at a rate of
\n2 mph until it hits top speed:
\nwhatever the engineer feels
\nwill not tear the cars apart.<\/p>\n
Train Y leaves
\na different station
\n12 PM. Track 2. Heading West.
\nIts passengers sleep,
\nheads smudging windows.<\/p>\n
Rain happens.<\/p>\n
At what point will
\neach train
\nhit the milk truck that has stalled
\nacross the tracks at
\nBay Point Junction?<\/p>\n
Answer:
\nThe trucker calls the police.
\nVoicemail picks up.
\nThe police parole and partake
\nin the parade. Today is Bay Point Day.
\nNo rain has fallen on the marchers,
\nso the first train is probably
\ncloser than the second.
\nHowever, the wind has swept in,
\nso the sleepy second train
\nspeeds up.
\nThat will have the greatest impact.<\/p>\n
Christina M. Rau is the founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY. She teaches English at Nassau Community College where she also serves as Editor for <\/em>The Nassau Review and Coordinator for the Creative Writing Project. Her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and most recently in the journals <\/em>Technoculture and <\/em>Redheaded Stepchild. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Her chapbook, <\/em>For The Girls, I, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Find her links on alifeofwe.blogspot.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Train X leaves the station 12 PM. Track 2. Heading East. It gains velocity at a rate of 2 mph...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-2","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/travel-prob.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronymag.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}