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Sunday, March 6, 2011

My Father on the Riverside & Great Northern (Little Railway, Dells, Wisconsin)


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The Narrows, Dells of Wisconsin: photo by Haines Photo Co., c. 1911 (Library of Congress)




Here he is riding a miniature train
and here I am, in our backyard, engaged

with my train to nowhere. Locomotive
and tender, in close-up, appear bound for

somewhere new, when seen from ground view, but a
long shot reveals the track begins and ends

in our back yard. The blanket over the
sandbox protects the sand. History

is not so forgiving as the human, sad,
common memory of time, which makes of

all effort perhaps no special shrine but
at least tries to understand it.





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Elbow and Narrows, Dells of Wisconsin: photo by Haines Photo Co., c. 1911 (Library of Congress)

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