°•. Trains and Pools by Sarah Blackman

a coal train passenger train scrap metal train chemical train vegetable train livestock train passenger train auto part train graffiti train coal train coal train hydrochloric acid train ear of corn train parrot train goldfish train train for chairs with out their legs table train train for all furniture from Sweden imperfect train train of hope. A robot train. A meter train. A rules train. An egg beater train. A crate train. A train crating. A passing train. Pigeon train. Extinction train. Fumes

under the water breath is an enemy that pins body to surface (breath breath) I swim like an enemy also and flip turn push a torpedo or seal flip turn a flurry of strokes at the surface a body either ends or begins and noise starts up. the Chinese families. the bald aqua-man. in training, the girls in bikinis and water wings. his body also like a seal, muscles, animal, pushing off the wall with the toes I will suck, the flexed arch I will walk my tongue across like dancing down a long road (breath) and at the end (breath) the tracks (breath) pointing out horizon

Sarah Blackman is currently an MFA student at the University of Alabama where she is also the fiction editor for the Black Warrior Review. Her poetry and ficiton has appeared or is forthcoming in The Washington College Review, Tatlin's Tower, the Poets Against the War Anthology, Diagram, Borderlands, Papertrail and the Best New American Voices Anthology, 2006. She has been nominated for an AWP Journal Intro Award by her school, was a semi-finalist in Nimrod's 2004 Katherine Ann Porter International fiction award and a three time finalist for Glimmertrain's fiction open. In June of 2004 She participated in the Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia on a fellowship from Fence Magazine.