Free Astray

—shipping industry jargon for lost freight

by Len Krisak (December 2013)

 

 

Atop dark straits of squawking treads worn down

In dimness, six souls out of Hawthorne sat,

Light rarely shafting motes with dull relief.

Occluded clerks, against walls painted brown,

Leaned back, or stamped a bill, or paused to chat

Running his life off rails, should raise a son

Tolled every day, and cheap at any rate.

There on a screen, I move from place to place

Those goods that someday I may have to trace.

 

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