Paul Ilechko
Tracks Left by Shadows
You have kindness
I was told
and that blazed
the heart
you are inside the engines of progress
where tracks lay their patterns
across the snow
among the secret places are days of wisdom
as policies are engaged
into a world
of economic transfer
of asset remediation
we were giants exfoliated
and burned to a core
a terrible white light
as a nation rose
reinvigorated
leaving behind
the years of infamy.