the chirpy, gurgly springiness of rails

during an oncoming train.

akin to the sound a lone ice skater makes

as his strides ricochet throughout a frozen

body of water.

there are many kinds of finality--that which

is marked for non repetition.

what is it to bear with those reverberations,

registering ends in and of themselves?

they're being funneled, by a finality one

among the many.