Toy Train
Jillian Weise
Poetry / Number 84Up to a point, precision
the ability to change direction
Twice cites the mountain
as a major influence
Summers in the attic
Renovation and reverse loop
Sometimes breathed upon
heavy in the night
Trouble coupling, uncoupling
Nothing, my love, to deliver
Knows beyond warranty
the end of the track
Long-standing complaint
against the whistle
Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007), The Colony (a novel), and The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. New work is forthcoming in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics.