The Book of Lost Railroad Photographs
Amy Beeder
Something in a locomotive, that black-clad traffic’s rush,
something in the silver-tinted background: always
that tally of progress & catastrophe, engines wrecked
those dark men bunched, clutching shovels, indistinct
in coils of smoke, and engines whole...
the rumor of America
long-gone & slumbering, that even thus lost rushes on—
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