still passenger

the still passenger sits on a train, on the window seat, in the middle of a long car. these are the days when there were drive-in movie theaters dotted across the landscape. at dusk, the images on the screen appear off in the distance. the images presented here are those which are glimpsed, the ones that still her thoughts. the train rolls along. the landscape seems to move, but doesn't. the still passenger sits alone with her snapshots in her mind. she's filling in the spaces.

June 21, 2013

some abstractions occurred in his sleep. or maybe he was looking at the inside of his eyelids. at any rate, something had happened on that short car trip that had changed his life. arthur seemed to have a new role to play without asking for it. he wished that he could have understood the glowing boy.