postcard · from a train

posted · written between two stations, neither named

greetings · the train

dearest —
the carriage smells of coffee and old wool.
the woman opposite has been knitting since dawn,
the same row, i think, four times.
a child counts the stations aloud
and gets one wrong on purpose. — m.

TR · 14
40c

EN ROUTE
—·V

to the house
long lane · sometemple

written with a pen that knows how to behave on a moving table. the knitting woman and the child are not, as far as anyone knows, related. the wrong station is, possibly, the right one.

see also · pc · capital · pc · village · pc · ferry · station · window