Window
Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light.
Carl Sandburg
Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light.
Riding a train at night can feel like being suspended between places, and Carl Sandburg catches that feeling in just three lines. The speaker looks out the window and sees the darkness not as empty, but as a large, soft presence. It is comforting and slightly mysterious.
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