USA MILLION MILE SKY
From under the
trees of the shady east
I’m heading for the truer west
still I’m waiting at a crossing
so on the road and off the tracks
as an engine pulling freight splits
the scene each car a passing blur like frames on an unspooling film
reminding me I got to get to
where a thousand yard train is just a two inch line across
a hundred mile desert
under a million mile sky