The Red Caboose

by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff and Connie R Meester

 


only a distant train whistle

anniversary

of his death                                                                                      Valorie

 

waiting for the red caboose

to bring him home                                                                         Connie

 

another town

same train groans

through my life                                                                                Valorie

 

ambulance stalled

behind RR crossing bar

wrong side of the tracks                                                              Connie

 

playing on the rails

slippery under my sandal                                                            Valorie

 

Gramma’s kitchen

open each fall

feeding the hobos                                                                          Connie

 

 

From Tsugigami: Gathering the Pieces, by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff and Connie R Meester, Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 2018, page 21.