Trains

I was sitting

bare kneed

by the tracks

So many trains

had passed

Dining cars

bulging

with revelers

Glasses clinking

with happy returns

I was sitting

my face buried

in a book

Listening

to every word

So many trains

had passed

I was lying

in bed

lost

in the sound

of rain

Listening

for the train

Tunneling

to unknown

regions 

And I wonder

Will I ride

this time?

A Georgia O'Keeffe sky

It was a Georgia O’Keeffe

sky

The night air

twitched with exhaust

And uptown holler

Caught in a
grainy Steiglitz world

Tensile steel and bitumen,
f stop and aperture

A street lamp 

blinks below

the day's brass and blare
fade away

Only the urgent tug

of moon

A large swell

drawing me closer

It was a Georgia OKeeffe
sky

The liquid quiver of her brush

I fall into the sky

trembling.

water snake

Water snake

Come!!!!

swim with me

in the cress

of nameless want

Bell toed one,

You! On the

planked beach

Come!!

Bring your white belly

to settle

unsettled stone

Only

To swim

with your head

above water

And your mouth

open.