Destination R & R
Amtrak bullet train
humming and swaying
up the Eastern Seaboard,
but I'm not hurried
or harried.
I read.
I nap.
I strreeetch my legs
with a walk to the dining car.
Movie like the landscape scrolls past,
alternately starkly urban
or surprisingly rural,
America just so
Beautiful.
Visions of gliding into Union Station,
walking the National Mall,
and savoring a last crumb of crabcake
fill my reverie.
Slouching in my seat,
I sip tea and wait
for the screeching cry
of train brakes,
to mark the joy of arrival
and the bittersweet end
of my train ride.
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Comments: 7
Well done!