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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