{"id":3664,"date":"2019-02-23T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2019-02-23T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:24:09","slug":"trains-by-george-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/trains-by-george-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains by George Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trains<\/h2>\n

by George Moore<\/p>\n

I do not remember locomotives by name.
\nI see the trains in the Newark terminal<\/p>\n

commuters hurrying to board and disappear
\ninto steam clouds and a world beyond my view.<\/p>\n

The blowdown and oil smelled of iron scorched
\nin fires fed by gray men in filthy overalls.<\/p>\n

When my father left one days and never returned
\nthe trains continued to carry me outward<\/p>\n

by common rails by grease sweat and exhaust
\nacross borders and seas to find myself alone.<\/p>\n

The cars ratcheting a beat on the rail seams
\nsleeping to the rhythm in my mother\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n

Conscious of the steady stream of time
\nsweeping us up and back to the age of steam.<\/p>\n

George Moore’s collections include\u00a0Saint Agnes Outside the Walls<\/i>\u00a0(FurureCycle 2016) andChildren’s Drawings of the Universe<\/i>\u00a0(Salmon Poetry 2015). Poems have appeared in\u00a0The Atlantic, Poetry, Arc, North American Review, Stand, Orion, and The Colorado Review<\/i>.\u00a0 His work was recently shortlisted for the Bailieborough Poetry Prize and long-listed for the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Moore’s collections include\u00a0Saint Agnes Outside the Walls\u00a0(FurureCycle 2016) andChildren’s Drawings of the Universe\u00a0(Salmon Poetry 2015). Poems have appeared in\u00a0The Atlantic, Poetry, Arc,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t