Racing the Eagle

Clarence Wolfshohl

January 4, 2026

The Eagle came screaming down

the Mo Pac rails.  We waved

and pulled imaginary cords 

to urge the engineer to blare

his whistle.  The earth trembled

even beyond the barbed wire fence

as the train sped into San Antonio.

We five mounted on our cast-off ponies

put heels to their flanks

and raced along the fence

gradually and then more speedily

losing ground, the iron horse

faster, more powerful than ours.

But we galloped on, roar

in our ears fading 

off southwest toward 

the Mo Pac depot in town.

Clarence Wolfshohl has been active in the small press as writer and publisher for over fifty years, publishing poetry and non-fiction in many journals, both print and online, including, Agave, Cape Rock, and New Letters, and Texas Poetry Assignment.  His latest publication is Play-Like (Alien Buddha Press, 2025).