Prairie 7
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laying their flesh arms against the twisting wrists ofsteel :what brothers thesein the darkof a thousand years? A headlight searches a snowstorm.A funnel of white light shoots from over the pilot ofthe Pioneer Limited crossing Wisconsin. In the morning hours, in the dawn,The sun puts out the stars of the skyAnd the headlight of the Limited train. The fireman waves his hand to a country school teacheron a bobsled. A boy, yellow hair, red scarf and mittens, on the bob-sled, in his lunch box a pork chop sandwich and aV of gooseberry pie.
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