DOWN THE TRACKS BLUES SALT AND TEARS is loose blues and is a poem and is just the reminder that tears and the sea are the real cure to just about everything and you got to be brave and jump the train to the Gulf at New Orleans if you really want Blues and Salt....

DOWN THE TRACKS BLUES SALT AND TEARS

has tracks running under
this little bridge out to
nowhere special
but far away
from anything
salt and tears

I rarely see the train
when I do my throat
catches with longing

I see its wheels going
smoothly even
carelessly down the tracks
as if it was everyday
a common thing
to leave this empty
place that is no
longer mine

I want to go home
with you
want us to jump
this train
like hobos
used to do

carelessly
still very
carefully so as
not to fall
under to the
tracks

I want to go along
the river
winding tracks
to somewhere
maybe even
to the sea

there will be no
waiting there
we will be home
too hobos
looking for a
life together

home being
where ever there is
river
sea
open sky

maybe even

New Orleans


the cry of the
midnight train
moving down
the delta track

to a city
a heron over
a salt estuary
a sultry bed
under the stars

arms

that are free
to hold

and hold

while the rhythm
of the wheels
on the track

sings
freedom

sea and tears
heal just everything
sorta like

love
love baby
baby
baby

baby