Station to Station
Noah Falck​
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Station 1
A dining location tucked in the corner between a pear tree and an outdoor sunbrella. Music covers us like camouflage. Strangers vampire through the slats of the fence. You never notice. You get the tan of a man in the modified light of night. The flowers want to be birds. The birds, flowers. A casual dinner if the weather holds.
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Station 2
You feel Mediterranean sipping Tempranillo in this quaint yet decadent locale. In fact, you feel as if you are inside a magazine before and after an applause. The hunger between seeing or being seen. Smoke is always rising, moving with birds. Clouds could be sex, etc. Ice cold Genesee after tending the flower garden. Stunning view of Station 3 where you cross your legs with a pointed toe.
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Station 3
Sunsets enter. You engage with the mouthpiece of a pipe. Oil on wood. "We are always drinking in the poem," I said on the plush cushions stomaching last week's rain. The canopy of string lights rage with modern elegance. Your laugh breaks into another smaller laugh.
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Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020). His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Northwest, and Poets.org. He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as Literary Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center and curates the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot-high abandoned grain elevator.