frozen hills tasting a thaw
 can sometimes fool the songbirds
 perched in the remnants
 of a rusty gondola car
 stranded on the siding
  
their singing seems random
 to an ear still burdened
 by the pinging
 of a lean & narrow
 railroad spike hammer
  
steel chirping
 becomes the acoustic blend
 a barge echoes
 waiting at the channel
 the river will ultimately
 decide all propriety
  
--- e b bortz
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