It was Christmas in Floy<\/p>\n
Exit 175 at yuletide<\/p>\n
Visions of I-70 semis through the electric fog<\/p>\n
A great icy pie crust rolled out over four and twenty black brush.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A Doctor Zhivago landscape<\/p>\n
But no good-looking non-Russian actors like in the 1965 movie<\/p>\n
Or good-looking non-Russian actors like in the 2002 TV miniseries<\/p>\n
No Egyptian Omar Sharif or Scottish Hans Matheson as Yuri<\/p>\n
Just an American wanderer in a giant stadium coat and a thick red, wool scarf;<\/p>\n
My KEEN boots barely grip the ice around my car.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Floy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Zhivago isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t romantic<\/p>\n
Or heroic or part of a great struggle<\/p>\n
No quaint buildings or fabulous sable fur hats<\/p>\n
The air freezes the hairs in my nostrils.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
An old construction camp<\/p>\n
A used-to-be train station<\/p>\n
An access to the Brontosaur Copper Mine Trail,<\/p>\n
Ruby Ranch and Labyrinth Canyon<\/p>\n
Was it really Floyd and the D fell off along the way?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Now just a siding, only of interest to trainspotting photographers<\/p>\n
Floy Canyon flows under I-70 as Floy Wash<\/p>\n
Population zero;<\/p>\n
Not a graffiti-sprayed ghost town like Cisco<\/p>\n
Just an abandoned no town<\/p>\n
Scraped off the earth with a jagged straight razor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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