The Freight Train

To slow my thoughts I begin to work

   like a train

   on the roll

I do my chores like washing

   the clothes

staying on track with my

   moods

carrying the freight down the

   rails

an engine happiest when it has a load

   of cars.

Danny P. Barbare has recently been published in the Aurorean. He resides in the Upstate of the Carolinas. / POEM by Danny P. Barbare, PHOTOGRAPH by Kait Mauro