Central Railway, Sydney 
A 1996 poem by the late Philip Levine.
Winter 2025
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Central Railway, Sydney
Central Railway, Sydney
Philip Levine, a former auto worker from Detroit and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2011–2012, passed away on February 14, 2015 at the age of eighty-seven. In celebration of his life and work, we present this poem, which …
Two Poems
CENTRAL RAILWAY, SYDNEY In a shit-house stall in Central I saw the one word “Mum” and thought once more of young men torn by want or war or hunger from their families, the West Virginian I wrote of thirty years …
