railway crossing...
i count the cars and read
their serial numbers
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About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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5 comments:
i like the factual aspect but also the underlying sense of passing time (it must be the time of year - it's getting to us all)
cheers
an interesting way of entertaining while waiting at the gate... never occured to me to read serial numbers of cars...
Floots: Ah yes, the passing of time. A recurring theme it seems on a few blogs lately. Thanks.
Polona: Thanks. I had usually only counted the cars in the past myself. But the day I penned this haiku I noticed the serial numbers on the cars also had 3- or 4-letter codes in front of the 5-digit numbers. I did some research and found this about Canadian rail car serial numbers:
Canadian Rail Car Serial Numbers
I'm sure other countries have their own standards.
Sounds like the train is going too slow!! Guess I could stop cussing the railroad and read the serial numbers. Could be good therapy...
Pat: Yeah, it was going fairly slow alright. Thanks. :-)
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