Northbound
Train
Joseph
V. Danoski
It’s time to be aboard the northbound train
Before my life goes down the drain.
Each night I can hear its whistle blow
As the dusky diesel starts to slow.
There’s another sound getting louder now,
Like a party or a roaring row;
Or the howling of a thousand souls
Being raked over the devil’s coals.
It’s time to be aboard the northbound train,
Escape the wastes of life in vain;
And before long I’ll be born again
On the badlands of some higher plain.
See the backs of cities and border towns,
Over hills and valleys, ups and downs.
We’ll ride the rails through the wind and rain,
Over lakes of space and waves of grain.
I’ll leave my old life miles behind;
Once out of sight, twice out of mind.
You never know till you’re round the bend
If it’s the beginning or the end.
I’ll play my guitar to the stars,
To the rhythm of the rolling cars.
I’ll sing my song with a shot of rye,
One look back before I say good-bye.
Joseph V. Danoski is a
writer of letters and essays on diverse subjects, with strong opinions on many
topics. A poet of horror, science fiction, and fantasy; he has been published
in journals and webzines both in
America and abroad. Various publications include Scavenger’s Newsletter,
Pegasus, Red Owl, The Ultimate Unknown, Penny Dreadful, Pivot, Psychopoetica
(UK), The Nocturnal Lyric, The Quest (India) The Aurorean, The Mentor &
Masque Noir (Australia), Twilight Ending, Talvipaivanseisaus (Finland) The
Romantics Quarterly, Hadrosaur Tales, Endemoniada, Northern Stars Magazine, The
NeoVictorian/Cochlea, Frisson, Black Petals, Outer darkness, Sanitarium magazine,
The Horror Zine. Other activities include being a multi-instrumentalist,
songwriting, and recording original music. Joseph currently resides in Berlin,
New Hampshire. Dojonaki05@Gmail.Com
