Elder by: Stephanie Ramirez, Charcoal, 2014.
The Train Sings
by: Jim Kuth
A strange lullaby
rocks through our house
every night about this time
One block away
cold metal is heating up tracks
rocking the earth with each passing car
A lonely engineer
counts a thousand miles
from home
That lonely whistle
cries out a warning
to all little boys
If you roam too far from home
you must give up
your life of cozy blankets
For a long lonely life
trapped within cold metal
forever on a winter’s night