TIMETABLES BE DAMNED

Travelling towards a marching place
where walking is paramount

and healthy legs gain lengthy freedoms
wading in long green, engine

in revolution where grass is wild
and someone pays for restoration

of order, clean lines with visible tracking.
In the heat, nature is brittle, stands

in snappish mood as if memory
is inherited, and expectations assumed

and life will begin again when rain
arrives to heal the land, play its part.