Thursday, July 30, 2026: Lorraine Caputo's "Serenading the Eight-Fifteen"

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Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011) and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.


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Serenading the Eight-Fifteen


I serenade

the freight trains

with tunes played

on a silver pennywhistle


The strains of songs

the high notes

reach for the horn song

of the eight-fifteen

echoing through the valley


The railroad crossing bells ring

the whistle blows

soon the train

will meet my song


The navy & yellow locomotive

of the Alaska railroad

rolls slowly past the depot

without stopping my tune

I wave at the engineer


My mind follows the notes

of my flute

my eyes follow the round black

tanker cars

with red diamonds

of flames

& 1203

long & deliberate

the length passes

a snake slowing

for the bridge ahead


And finally the yellow & navy caboose

they slither across the bridge

carrying my pennywhistle serenade

through the taiga valley


The evening sun

shines off the jade hills

touches the white snow

touches the low clouds


© Lorraine Caputo


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