DC PLACES ISSUE Derrick Weston Brown   MISSED TRAIN I smelled you at the Metro stop Tasted you on the Yellow Glimpsed you on the Green Caught you on the Orange Loved you on the Red Lost you on the Blue, Now I need a transfer or at least exit fare, cause no one deserves to take such a ride, and end up being taken for every dime. Baby you a last minute change of plans, an unexpected phone call at the God hour that leaves me feeling mortal. Derrick Weston Brown has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina at Howard University and Cornelius Eady at American University, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He is the author of a chapbook, The Unscene (published in 2006), and his work has appeared in DrumVoices Review, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Black Issues & Book Reviews, and the Cave Canem Poetry Anthologies of 2002 and 2003. He is a native of Charlotte, NC and currently resides in Mount Rainier, MD. He is a Cave Canem fellow and the poet-in-residence at Busboys & Poets bookstore and restaurant.   Published in Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 2006. To read more by this author: Derrick Weston Brown Derrick Weston Brown: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue