Rumble of heavy railcars
throughout the dark house:
an unending pulsing drone
of hoppers, flatcars, reefers, grain haulers,
intermodals, centrebeams, tank cars.
No train now passes through this valley.
Beyond my walls is only the silence
of the surrounding mountains
under May’s stars. Indoors, however, steel wheels
press down on steel rails, and the clatter seems
