Railroad Crossing
Freight train passes through Mississippi smalltown sighing of boarded-up barber
shops and shotgun shacks - Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, British
Columbia Railway hammering past longtime pickup trucks and school buses stopped
at red-light-flashing bell-tolling railroad crossing in early a.m., coming and
going everyday the same - boxcars, flatbeds, rustbitten of Pittsburgh steel, one
coming now in bright spray paint, WestCoast gang-tagged like freeway signs in
L.A.
Mark Christopher Eades
Nettleton, MS, 2/12/98
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