
July 29, 2020First Train. Boundary Creek Station
I was assembling my apparatus, intent
on taking a photograph of the first train arriving
here at the platform. My initial opportunity destroyed
when a harnessed brown gelding shied at the noise,
the smoke and the steam, the iron wheels grinding the rails.
Ground shaking under me, I hung on to my camera.
The terrified gelding broke his forelegs, soon dragged away
for dog meat, while I reassembled my equipment,
turning my eye back to the train.

“Boundary Creek” by Murray Toews
from #68 - Summer 2020