{"id":198,"date":"2026-01-02T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/?p=198"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:21:10","slug":"locomotive-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/poetry\/locomotive-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A check of the glass, <br>a nod from the Fireman, <br>and I eased the regulator wide open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power flowed in perfect synchrony and we accelerated with a howl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A protest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defiance against the night,\u00a0<br>against the rain that lashed the windows and ran rivulets across our flank, <br>against every priest whose God never designed us to travel so rapidly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the hellscape of the firebox, mortal remains of Carboniferous forests underwent their second death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water, even such as that which fell now from heaven, pushed aside physics and biology in pursuit of alchemical bliss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steam and iron, rails, rods, wheels and lubrication, carried us ever onward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire and Water\u00a0<br>Pressure and Release <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the elements of my Locomotive Heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>\u00a9 2026, Andrew Clayton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A check of the glass, a nod from the Fireman, and I eased the regulator wide open. Power flowed in perfect synchrony and we accelerated with a howl. A protest. Defiance against the night,\u00a0against the rain that lashed the windows and ran rivulets across our flank, against every priest whose God never designed us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,145],"tags":[7,144,135,108],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-locomotive-heart","category-poetry","tag-andrew-clayton","tag-locomotive-heart","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}