Iron
Horse Blues 1932
Rail
yards, mostly empty
cluster
of thugs by the barbed wire fence
trouble
in the cards, jokerʼs gone wild
Whistles
shriek, bells clang
smoke
stacks belch
tireless
wheels march
closer
to the glinting moon
Inside
a boxcar, hobos huddle
hum
soulfully, strum an old banjo
ride
free to their strange destiny
Restless
thieves hop the train
angry
curses meet flying fists
someone
shouts knife!
Morning
papers scream
Murder
on the Galveston Express
Diana Dettling Buckley will be a featured reader at the Friendswood Public Library on Wednesday, February 29th at 7pm. Other essayists will include Barbara Carle, Kay Cox, and Nanci Engle. Read Diana's essay Summer Holidays.
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