On the platform

Sometimes it's walking up the tenement staircase

slow motion spiral epiphanies

and by the time you've put the key in the door you remember

the beauty of the unsolicited phone call

'It's been a while. How are you.'

A moment of clarity. The difference between

saving an email as a draft and pressing send.

When the sun comes out I open every window in the house

it's the fresh air that circulates that is the difference

between strolling for a train in the morning

with a paper under your arm

and arriving out of breath

a minute past the hour.