Thursday, November 11, 2010

found poem from behind my parent's home

During World War I 
there was a railroad  that ran the hill
behind where we are standing now.
We have gotten into taking
an afternoon walk along this old roadbed --
aren't the views great? The Highwoods
and the Little Belts  --they are twenty-five,
thirty miles from us.
The  patches of timber closer in --
those are the graveyards.

4 comments:

  1. john,

    yes. as usual you recap what i cannot put into words.

    donna,

    a long stretch of history everywhere one looks. yes, peaceful . . .

    kass,

    interesting you said what you said the way you said it. i am often thinking certain views/photos are poems, also.

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