Train Tracks of Tangents

laying on my naked bed
fully clothed
remembering dreams;

past lives... or maybe visions of the future.

forgetting secrets
societies forged

within an overlapping circle of friends & foes.

deceptive smiles
ticking time-bomb crocodiles

tell me everything by saying nothing.

moon rains down
accented by each star shining
over an all-American river

feet dangle, feelings tangle, fear drowns in herbal water.

blink eyes hard
rub away rust from daydreams

familiar faces fade with flickering streetlights.

time travel, girl
maroon curtains unfurl

suspended in this animation of mental history

locomotive exhaust
smoke rings encompass
mind's eye waves blindly

ghost conductor lunatic smile, runaway train on a tangent mile.

c.marie