Tuesday, July 19, 2011

5 a.m.

As it rolls through town
a train blasts its horn five times.
Wake up! Wake up! Wake .....

1 comment:

Gunnar Berg said...

Strikes me that I am one of the last of a generation that remembers real trains.

"Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screamin' at the wheels,
bigger than anything they is, at least that's the way she feels

Trains are big and black and smokin', louder'n July four,
but everybody's actin' like this might be somethin' more. . .

... than just pickin' up the mail, or the soldiers from the war.
This is somethin' that even old man Wileman never seen before."