Sunday, August 22, 2021

Train Wreck in Kansas

I read a poem that made me think, I cannot write a poem at all.

It made my words just birds ramming into windows,

it made my ideas just fists busting into walls.

No, seriously, it was quite good.

It was thought out in metaphor and each piece lead to the next

I realized I have a far way to go

to lift the sideways steam engine

from the Kansas plains

and remove the debris from the prairie 

and find beaty in the

sundrenched metal

and find soul in the

tipped over coal

in this 


train wreck.