Yesterday, 04:47 AM
Top Bunk
More than central Asia its northern spaces
(that Mercator magnified) still loom empty–
who’d explore Siberia if he knew the
nothing he’d find?
There’s the Trans-Siberian Railway, hair-thin
threads of steel like Peter the Great’s unbending
corpse-paved road to Petersburg: needful, monstrous
monument, hubris
crossing silence. Minerals! Yes, the hectares
do contain petroleum, coal and iron...
plus, recall, the gold of Kolyma dug by
legions of zeks.
More than central Asia its northern spaces
(that Mercator magnified) still loom empty–
who’d explore Siberia if he knew the
nothing he’d find?
There’s the Trans-Siberian Railway, hair-thin
threads of steel like Peter the Great’s unbending
corpse-paved road to Petersburg: needful, monstrous
monument, hubris
crossing silence. Minerals! Yes, the hectares
do contain petroleum, coal and iron...
plus, recall, the gold of Kolyma dug by
legions of zeks.
Non-practicing atheist