Guy Reed
Ghost
Through the at-grade-crossing in the fog thick dawn
a freight train creaks and moans its low whisper along the tracks.
A procession of empty cages carries dark space,
slipping north through the unconscious of sleeping towns.
A freight train creaks and moans its low whisper along the tracks,
clickity- long roll between the -clack, slow circle on a line.
Slipping north through the unconscious of sleeping towns
heavy mist absorbs higher pitch and shudders low along the ditch.
Clickity- long roll between the -clack, slow circle on a line,
Circadian rhythm, tomorrow's train is due on time, will you arrive?
Heavy mist absorbs higher pitch and shudders low along the ditch,
leaves detach and drift to lie undisturbed among the stones.
Bio
Guy Reed is the author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press), the chapbook, The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press) and coauthor, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). He's published in journals, anthologies and contributed two poems, performing one, in a featured role for the film, I Dream Too Much. A Minnesota native, Guy's a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has worked many jobs both indoors and outdoors while also living in California, Oregon, and the Hudson Valley of New York where he now resides.