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The station expresses long-distance to commuters who throw shadows to form a curtain. When drawn, reveals the opera of the train sighing to a halt.   Passengers, versemarked by line breaks, falter in stanza by stanza. They slant, italicised by the motion as the train sinks. The artificial sky gradually deletes. Ellipses multiply when the travellers ease into a stilted intimacy, their soft hearts gliding towards the safe paragraph of home.

By Kristie Ng

QLRS Vol. 18. No. 4 Oct 2019

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