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Tag Archives: train
Terrible Openings I Paid For
The opening of a book should break the reader apart completely – they should scream as another world bursts into the vacuum of reality. I push my paperback into my rucksack – I don’t care if the pages get damaged. … Continue reading
The Wong Shape for this Journey
Kettle breath windows are blind white. Each station tips passengers into the carriage, they wear clothes sewn from cigarette smoke and rain. The bloke next to me has thighs like filing cabinets. I know where I am by the sound … Continue reading
Posted in Flash
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, Cardiff to trehafod, commuter bunny, commuters, creative prose, Creative writing, creative writing cardiff, creative writing rhondda, daily routine, flash, graphite bunny, laptop, observation, odd one out, outsiders, rain, sleeping baby, synchronisation, thighs, thighs like filing cabinets, train, valley train service, valleys’ rain, vignette
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Hot Caffeine on Platform One
Endocytosis around a mug filled with black-hole coffee. My shivers are ingrained. I’m thinking drums not rain. Rain on corrugated roofs. Lights red like stains on the platform. A diesel engine warms the sleepers. The track is black. The cafe … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged 1998, Benjamin F Jones, cardiff central, cardiff station, coffee, colours, Creative writing, endocytosis, graphite bunny, kissing, light, no smell, pigs in mud, station, suck, train, trains
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Home before you
On the bank white daisy constellations in the light from the train as a gift to you I leave them where they are to mark the end of your journey home. – Benjamin F Jones
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, commute, daisy, flowers, love, LPM, poem, poetry, romance, seperation, train
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