Bright yellow train with conductor, slicken-
haired and needing clip, no bother to cool
kitty looking on since red-crowned chicken
has her back while blue and brown pooches rule
rear cars. No bother train leans a bit off
rail on its blue dresser-drawers mountain.
Does pretty miss with bright yellow hair, soft
blue gingham dress with lacy collar and
cuffs—eyes of heaven and lashes like church
spires—sit waiting for bright yellow train? Does
she listen in silence for cars’ brief lurch
as they pause near her shiny patent shoes,
and kitty mews, chicken clucks, dogs bark, all
greeting pretty miss with happy love calls?
Roger Armbrust
January 29,
2013
