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| Is Putin on the "Trump Train"? —Scott Stantis, Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2016. |
For Donald
I am hearing the dirge
of my people.
The sound gets louder
and louder, like a train
approaching a station
which has been waiting
and waiting
as an eager slave.
Soon all the passengers
will board and slowly
the landscape will pass
by windows waving
at amber grain.
I stand at the crossing
with torn eyes.
I remember when
the country rose in wings
and did not hope
for engines
hard on
their dark way.
David Radavich's most recent poetry collections are The Countries We Live In (2014) and a co-edited volume called Magic Again: Selected Poems on Thomas Wolfe (2016). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, and in Europe. He has published a variety of articles and is current president of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
