Tuesday poetry

Linking today to another blog that I follow, Andrew Shields, who's recent post pointed me to this poetry magazine site called SoftBlow (and on to the weirdest site ever, that of Donna Ong, who created this lovely cover image for their front page. I thought at a glance it was butterflies then realised it was tree seeds).

Anyway, I was really struck with this poem, mainly because I used to have really bad train anxiety dreams too.

Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors by Andrew Shields

The train hums in to Mannheim where we change

for Kassel, all our stuff's still strewn about,

Andrea picks up Miles and the backpack,

my arms encircle papers, toys and snacks,

we're on the platform, we just made it out,

I have to go back in for one more thing,

I grab it, but someone's standing in the aisle,

the button's just a second from my finger,

the door is slipping shut, I force it, fly,

and wake to write these lines to keep the dream

from recurring, to close the doors on it.