September turns the Page

Left on the Train

(for Carl Sandburg coming into Chicago Fall 2024)

This is for the hearts who have traveled on this Train

To the Heats who lost their Tickets

To The Hearts who missed their Train

To hearts lost on the wrong train

To hearts thrown off the train

To hearts that never caught the right train

To hearts who left it all on the train

To hearts who once took everything they ever owned on the train

To hearts who discovered each other on the train

To hearts who remembered everything on the train

To hearts who forgot everything on the train

To the hearts who never saw each other again on the Train

To the hearts who waited for you on platform

As your train came in (and you couldn’t wait to get off into their arms)

VQ 10/9/24