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Boyhood.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	185
Issue	2
Published	2004-11-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

BOYHOOD

   Alone in the basement,
   I would sometimes lower one eye
   to the level of the narrow track of the model train

   to watch the puffing locomotive
   pull the cars around a curve
   then bear down on the with its dazzling eye.

   What was in those moments
   before I lifted my head and let the train
   go rocking by under my nose?

   I remember not caring much
   about the fake grass or the buildings
   that made up the miniature town.

   The same went for the station and its master,
   the crossing gates and flashing lights,
   the milk car, the pencil-size logs,
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