Riding the Rails

Time for Prosery in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ Mish is hosting and introduces us to Gordon Downie, Canadian musician, author, poet, songwriter, storyteller and activist. Mish chose this line from Downie's poem "Starpainters" to use in our prose.

~~ The Starpainters are taking over now ~~ 

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New-found friends, off to see the world, approaching said world as though it were a gigantic defective transit map. [this journey had the potential of ending horribly.] 

In Paris, they boarded the Orient Express for Vienna, only to awaken in a foggy freight yard outside Bratislava. A rusty switch in Kyoto sent them rattling toward mountain snows ~ not cherry blossoms they were dying to see. 

Months of iron rails and misplaced platform tickets became their shared language. Yet, somewhere between the off-kilter itineraries, and the derailments, both stopped feeling like abject failures. 

The starpainters were taking over now. Friendly frictions became a real track, clashing personalities gave way to happy travelers ~ stepping off that final, sun-bleached platform  smiling, exhausted ~ bound together forever.