The present shunted 
into a snowstorm 

by the platform's 
mood of desertion. 

The future shivering 
in the roof girders 

rusted plumage. Lamp 
-light and snow 

steeped in oil 
unable to uncouple 

from sub-zero cold. 
Nostrils of steam, 

and longing bending 
two steel parallels 

into the circle 
of an embrace.