Lumière train

Darby Hudson

I’m sitting by the silvery train tracks, under the moon, in a leafy auditorium.

Tons of steel and light approach from the wings of the stage

and thunder through with warm flashes of amber luminescence:

the train windows, shaped like animatic frames of old film-reel negative,

flicker by at 18 frames a second.

Just enough to bring the commuters back to life