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From the Southwest Chief

From the train I saw
a llama loping
a falcon hovering
a river freezing
a transvestite training
a couple kissing
two in the loo

smoking septagenariens
a blind gospel singer singing
santa claus is coming to town
like Mahalia Jackson

eagle wings folding
forest deer fawning
a red mare nursing
cottonwoods curling
Kiowa grasslands
one mute mesa

an infant's first stepping
a woman leaving,
pining, drinking,
birds nesting.