Poems

Тhе Compass of the Dream

Тhere’s the train leading us quickly towards the dream:
its wheels sink in sweet glue.
We try in vain to ring the alarm bell but the bell is full of wool.
Who is that girl over there with her palm
like green outside landscape over the window? The conductor tells us calmly that
it’s too late.
Тhе train is over an abyss and the engineers are insane.
Тhе dark ѕеа closes blindly upon us. Obviously there’s no time to slip away: we leave
the railway lights far behind
and the train transforms itself into а deep submarine.