The night train is a special kind of creature
\nA great metal beast that speeds through the dark countryside
\nSwaying rhythmically
\nSo many dreams in motion
\nAn entire population in\u00a0limbo<\/p>\n
I’m sitting at the window
\nWatching the pinpoints of light rushing by
\nCaptain Kirk must’ve felt something like this
\nWhen Mr. Sulu took them through warp speed
\nWhen the stars went\u00a0by,
\nDid Spock feel anything?<\/p>\n
Against the sky I can make out the silhouette of a hill The night train is a special kind of creature A great metal beast that speeds through the dark countryside Swaying rhythmically So many dreams in motion An entire population in\u00a0limbo I’m sitting at the window Watching the pinpoints of light rushing by Captain Kirk must’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe hill seems to be\u00a0beckoning to\u00a0me
\nI too am tempted to\u00a0disembark\u00a0at the next station
\nand find my way to the hill
\nAnother time, perhaps…<\/em>\u00a0I say to myself
\nThe night train sways with gentle laughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"