Candelabra

I caught hot rails

wailing in the desert sun

and watched the earth

strangle the octopus

for more light

As the hot smiling bespectacled man

gazed at a watch fumbled

from hidden pockets

I thought of my mother

in a crisp linen dress

calling my eyes away

from the sun

Note:  I have always had a fascination for trains; this hearkens back to my youth and riding trains with my mother.