The Dream Continues

© Matthew Word Bain

looking down across this dead end alley
to where the road disappears in shadow
I can hear a freight train rumbling
just beyond the screen of trees
this view is from a dream
where the past was present
and the future paid attention
as the dissolution of chronology
made many more things possible
than one would find in waking life
I could feel the stories in this space
as close as the warm evening air
and all those who ever walked
or rode or…