"Prone"
Photograph by James Steeber, textual accompaniment by P.B. Warrington
My local Subway route home often takes me to this place on this uptown platform as I wait for my express train. Sometimes there is someone prone upon this equipment, as it is somewhat hidden away from the rest of the platform. P.B. Warrington supplies a sensitive observation of an all-too-common sight in the city.
"Prone"
Now there's time
Any surface is cool down here
Daylight evaporating into incandescence
No shapeless oblivions
Anxiously beckoning
Dream while no commuters hurry
To a rain-swept street above
Rise later and soak up time
Away from the store fronts
Head swiveling right-to-left
Never looking back
Return to these chains
A resting place
Anchored for now