LOCOMOTIVES
(Composed prior to 1971; from manuscript held by B. Burke)Feral and bright
fire is caged.
Water-and-air in the night
leap enraged
from its prison of iron and steel,
shrieking and white.
White as the Magic of steam
leaping higher
till let by the terrible beam
of the Eye of the fire
alive in the night, and unreal
as an alchemist’s dream …
- Elementals, in chains ye are yoked to our trains!
