Sometimes the Boiler Aches

in the language of a cumulative push - steam-roars, boom, boom, boom in the belly of the beast, crimson-teeth rip-fire into-iron-flesh b u b b l e s roll, under-understood, thunder-in down the pipe, bellowing with hiss ... stok'd into a viscous-rumble s:trains-a-move-down-the-line engine-urges-whine up-the-track, clakity-clak clakity-clak in feet-of-head a head of steam m o a n s, presses tempest into iron-plated bolts the size of your fist, squeals out rigid seams as fiery mist: truth escapes, trailing white plumes, stack to sky, stack-to-sky, to fall as condensate rain; hard going tears, way down in the hole, groaning-oh 'til the fire comes again