My father grew up by the train yards and we visited there often. The train horn has always been comforting to me, and I want to comfort my father to express all that he cannot about his life, as he nears the end. I want to celebrate the details he lived. I want to call across the train yard to him, to let him know I understand, and I value all he’s experienced

Lynn Finger’s writings have appeared in 8Poems, Perhappened, Wrongdoing Magazine, Book of Matches, Fairy Piece, Drunk Monkeys, and is forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic. Her work was nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net Anthology. Lynn edits Harpy Hybrid Review and works with a group, that mentors writers in prison.