Thursday, June 2, 2011

i see an epigraph in here...

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—


Read the rest at VQR online.

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