A Train Is Coming

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Ambling down on the trestle track there
came to a place where the creek made bare
 felt her heat before I knew her name 
callus on my hand ‘cause I played the game 

delirious and mocking was a scar on the tree 
rustling and red in the oracle breeze
 heard these words from the sanctified mouth 
of the tunnel in the tangle of a jackpine:

“Go split wood on the old mainline 
away away away tomorrow 
leave your gold in the devilish pine "
And then and then and then
She kissed my cheek, I felt the fluttering spark
and I became a bread for breaking ."
Heard a voice in the rattling dark
 "A train, a train, a train is coming.”

Sunk my love in the old swim hole
Swinging from a log on a brakeman’s rope
 remembering the valley from long ago 
flooded by the water that she swore to hold

  But she lit my soul with a stuttering dart 
tied my hands for the chastity art
 kept me down in the shuddering hull 
while she sold my sails in the afternoon lull

She said, “Go split wood on the old mainline
 away away away tomorrow 
leave your gold in the devilish pine” 
and then and then and then
She kissed my cheek, I felt the fluttering spark
 and I became a bread for breaking
 I heard her voice in the rattling dark
 “a train a train a train is coming.”

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from Saltwater, released January 1, 2013

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Saltwater

Jan 2013

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