Today in the North Georgia mountains the sun’s straight up, school’s out—boarded-up shops and broken soda machines, filling stations with no tanks or recent calendars: all wait their turn to disappear under the great sleepy eyelids of kudzu and cicadas.
Two young boys are following railroad tracks between mountains, one of them short, the other taller by a foot. It’s all there on four legs, their youth and friendship, the boundless summer stretching out ahead of them somewhere down the tracks as the tall one leans over the shorter who tilts his head to cock an ear.
‘Whither do they go,’
...............vanishing side-by-side,
...........................train rails
...............and the bend
...........................of a river?
by Gary LeBel
Cumming, Georgia
first published in Abacus (2008)
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