Train

Just where the grass
meets the woods
an old rabbit hutch
has fallen over.

Nothing inside it now
but the whistle
of the southbound train.

Teddy Macker is the author of the collection of poetry This World (White Cloud Press, 2015; foreword by Brother David Steindl-Rast). His writing appears in the Antioch ReviewNew Letters, the Seneca ReviewThe Massachusetts ReviewThe SunTin House, and various anthologies. He lives with his wife and daughters on a farm in Carpinteria, California, where he maintains an orchard.