CARGO

What is on the train
rolling through my city
so important
the conductor sounds the whistle
every other second
from three to five a.m.?

Is it danger? Contagion?
A treasure?
A child asleep on the tracks?

A father awake in his house.

We carry what we do not own,
Train. Who will hold
us harmless
for damage to property
in our care, custody, and control?