Railway To Hell

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The Gypsy jumped from car to car,

never getting off the train

 

In Davenport through morning fog,

the old town looked the same

 

The prairies waited in the dark,

the Rockies far beyond

 

In Denver’s wind he heard the words

to an oft-forgotten psalm

 

The engine roared, the distance called,

the rails went on and on

 

The desert lit the night on fire,

to burn the right from wrong

 

A Reno stop to take on water,

drowning in the past

 

Through farms and fields and countryside,

to Stockton now at last

 

His feet stepped down to touch the earth,

and genuflect once more

 

Before reboarding, headed East

—perdition his true lord

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: April, 2020)

 

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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