One Night

Magner, James, Jr. "One Night." In Rose of My Flowering Night. Francestown, NH: The Golden Quill, [1986]: 19.

Poem; untitled on p. 19 (opening two words given as title in Contents). In a variation on haiku, the Speaker of the poem traces his (?) genesis to the copulation of a butterfly and a locomotive, in twenty syllables in a line going down the page, one syllable per line.