WE DISCOVER A RAILROAD

Rabi digs
The dog, a good find 
Is patient with kids
But he digs

Got chipmunks, moles?
He’ll enlarge the holes
Got soft dirt?
Watch him flail
Today he uncovered

A nail

Giant, covered in rust 
Old
It excited the imaginations of two
Hannah and Olivia, who
Retrieved then took to school
Rabi’s find
For me, old western movies came to mind
Images of hammers spiking in . . . 

Railroad beds

Our East Lansing subdivision, once a farm,
Before that, a wilderness
Loggers moving trees

Of course
The iron horse

We Googled hard
Studied maps, dates
Names and facts
But uncovered nothing to implicate
Our back yard

Was it just a farmer’s spike
So big, rusty and old?
A railroad story is better told
But wait . . .

How about one of those old plank roads?


DRK
9/8/11
5/28/18