Poem-a-Day - "​​On Time" by Robin Robertson

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April 4, 2022 

On Time

Robin Robertson

His head’s a secret train-set in the attic:
quiet, straightforward, always summer.

The cattle in their fields of baize,
the postman on his bike,

the green sponge trees
by the papier-mâché tunnel, the children

forever waving their stiff handkerchiefs
at the trains that are always on time.

Copyright © 2022 by Robin Robertson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 4, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Robin Robertson is the author of The Long Take (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018), which won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction, and was the first poem to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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