Endless train on the rails.
The heartbeat singing cla-shunk cla-shunk,
cla-shunk cla-shunk
across the shifting prairie,
down the pass and into the outstretched West
north of Laramie.
My mind goes out of focus,
the daydream meets the world.
The beat of the collar against my neck
in the merciless wind,
the forever prairie, the infinite cla-shunk,
the towering sky,
incomprehensible.
I bet there are places where the endless [...]

This
is the place
we’re all looking for
the place
where nothing happens.
The quiet sky, the quiet sky,
the waft of oil and burning wood,
the clack of a shutter in the breeze,
a willowy rustle, wind in the pines.
Neighbors shouting down the valley
and laughing their way home
the freedom of a foreign language
spoken all around you.
The hard and beautiful smell of
that first [...]

In the morning, the time of hope,
the sky will be blue like fresh steel,
or woolen grey,
it might rain, or it might be hot
like always, or you might see your
footprints in the frost. The sky, the world, won’t care,
and the sky, the world, won’t know.
The world. It needs help sometimes.
A push, a kickstart, a breath, from [...]