Poetry – Issue 6 | August 2009
Railroad Museum
by James Wilk
Giggling in denim dungarees,
overalls, and engineer’s caps,
with sunburned cheeks
and chocolate-smeared lips
the color of faded boxcars,
oily ties and rusted spikes,
they kick up dust between the rails
on August afternoons,
flitting from engine to engine,
caboose to caboose, as if
iron horses were clover blossoms
and short-legged bodies were bees.
About the author
James S. Wilk is a physician in Denver, Colorado, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. His poems have recently appeared in 42 Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Measure, Pearl, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and others. His 2007 chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies is available through Pudding House Press.
Read our current issue, Issue 6 | August 2009:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
