Train Frozen--By Diane Webster--United States

Train Frozen

The petrified train emerges

from the rock formation

with the caboose still hidden

within the wind/rain imagination.

Fog pretends smoke from the stack;

thunder mimics the iron horse

rolling across tracks not yet laid.

An old train display frozen

in the national park museum

where juniper trees cordon off

the area so visitors do not touch,

and a mountain wren

whistles in the distance.

Diane Webster's goal is to remain open to poetry ideas in everyday life or nature or an overheard phrase. Many nights she falls asleep juggling images to fit into a poem. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Poets, Illya's Honey, River Poets Journal and other literary magazines.