nothing good ever happened there
ratty row of shotgun shacks
backed up to Illinois Central tracks
wrong side of town
where locomotives groaned loads
through bituminous nights
dragging souls of the slowly dying
family and friends
down the same moonlit rails
we used to escape
David Gross' most recent collection is Little Egypt (Flutter Press, 2017), recent work in Contemporary Haibun Online, Haibun Today, and Otata. He and his wife Linda, live near the center of the Big Muddy watershed in southern Illinois where they enjoy grandchildren, gardening, birding, and hiking.
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