Friday, November 19, 2010

Barentsburg

Desert under permafrost
vistas blank of human trace
enfold you wintry burg
orphan of distant histories

There were men here once
wrapped in itchy wool
lips chapped to bursting
flickers of homeostasis

Figures in concrete mural
the last of your villagers
backs straight faces firm
against a springless North

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