Opa John
The caboose sits red—its iron spine cradles the earth like Atlas
rails stretching into nowhere. The stream murmurs softly
its voice threading through Ellie’s laughter like silver wire
"Do you see it?" I ask her my voice a splintered cello
"The train, Ellie—the one that carries us westward
past the edge of the world where Cronus grinds his teeth
and...
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