from "The Telling"

What's earth-stopping is the howl
of a train expressly on its way
to not here. It moans a phantom hunger
all the more terrible because unseen
--Hear it?--This is the sound of all
that rifles through us and does not stay.
Everything is in the details: wail of the train
through tracks unseen, destination unknown.
When I show you how you and I
have more hunger than we know
what to do with, I am telling you
goodbye before you know it.

-Mookie Katigbak