House by the Railroad - Edward Hopper

poetry inspired by visual art

House by the Railroad (1925) Edward Hopper

Second Empire

the house

and its shadows

blue dust 

and the sky

are discarded 

along the tracks

a generation 

of people  -  agrarian 

builders 

of polite society 

have taken the train

to the next 

century

(C) Jan Darrow 2022