Schedules spared one gap
Timetables bowed to color
Passengers forgave delay
Tickets grew petals
Conductors brewed gentleness
Poured into paper cups
Heads turned west in practice
Bodies learned pause
A boy counted cloud cities
Grandmother named them home
Suitcases rested like animals
Breathing deeper than leather
Arrival returned without regret
Work waited without threat
Beauty claimed the fare
Nobody argued