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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