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Chief
(after the painting by Franz Kline)
by Neil Ellman
On these tracks
twisted parallels
of blackened steel
comes the train
speeding past
deep ironies
comes the engine
spitting ash and smoke
dark premonitions
swerve
around blind corners
comes the rat-a-tat
the roar
of steel on steel
locomotion
grinding to a halt
in tangled space.
Chief
(after the painting by Franz Kline)
by Neil Ellman
On these tracks
twisted parallels
of blackened steel
comes the train
speeding past
deep ironies
comes the engine
spitting ash and smoke
dark premonitions
swerve
around blind corners
comes the rat-a-tat
the roar
of steel on steel
locomotion
grinding to a halt
in tangled space.
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