Poetry Train 2

Here's a second ride on TFE's Poetry Bus.
Heavy Freight

Across the desert

something is moving

.
At first it looked like a dark line

against the far hills

a geological feature in this country of fractures and upended layers.

.

From 30,000 feet you can look

down and see the roads

the towns

and the long straight scars

across the earth

.

Something's moving along one of those

A thin mile long

it flows down the canyon

and out across the flat wastes

.

Car after car after car

It carries steel

and coal

and goods

across the empty miles to Los Angeles.

.