Suddenly

When the train jerks to a halt in November gloom a young man surprises the silence with a voice that flows the way cream pours from a jug, and passengers stop looking at what they cannot see outside and voices fold into voices as football fans, shoppers, tourists, children – sitting, standing – become an upsurge of song and no-one can stop themselves joining in as the tune is lobbed from seat to seat, over tables, between people, across the aisle and the sound pushes at the windows, bounces off the ceiling, throws itself through any chink, into the fog, the morning.