hail to embark

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hail to embark

He waited at the stop,

streetlight clouding above him,
timetable long past meaning.

In the window of the shelter
he caught himself —
not a threat,

just someone

         who’d missed

    too many departures.

A bus passed

                without slowing.
He didn’t lift his hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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