WINTER’S TOLL
The rails run straight to Montauk.
The pine forest is wizened by the salt off the ocean
Deer dash across the tracks.
Day and night.
The train runs once an hour.
3600 seconds apart.
Still some deer don’t make it.
Crows pick clean the bodies and the bones gleam white in the afternoon light.
April and it’s still winter
From Rockaway to Montauk
Maybe tomorrow it will be Spring.