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Absolutely Revolting
Poetry

Train to Leura

by Vivian Smith
by Vivian Smith •
July–August 2008, no. 303

The train to Leura early Sunday morning
and our compartment full of total strangers,
Russian-speaking hikers, boots and shorts,
and four Americans, I’d say, late sixties,
calling out the stations as they pass:
‘Melbourne was more interesting than this’,
‘The trees looked better across Portugal’,
‘I want to see a kangaroo today’.

 


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