What Rough Beast | Poem for August 11, 2018

Kazimieras M. Campe
Midnight Special

This train trundles in darkness,
heedless of madness riding within.

This one is not bound for glory.
All aboard are not all aboard.

This train runs on unafraid of waking
those asleep in graves by the tracks.

 

Kazimieras M. Campe is a retired engineer whose poetry has appeared in Potomac Review, Metropolitain, Bitterroot, and Hot Calaloo. He lives in Maryland.

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