Midnight Trains

It is the light in Marfa. That is what this town in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande is known for. Well it could just as well be the Southern Pacific Rail at night. It is both the proximity of that train and the nature of that sound that together makes one feel in this place so damn nostaligic. One could imagine just how a life before computers and cell phones might have felt, well perhaps might have been experienced. Like in a blackout. How I wish for one of those. How I wish for that over guns and insanity which together hit another rural Texas town yesterday. (November 6, 2017)