Snow Job

snow job
(apropos the work goes on…)

snow—
that whiteness 
that blankets
the path
ebony footprints left
may cover the way
for a moment
but as night
melts into day
injustice is as snow
and we are the plow people:
workers of the sun
melting old deceit
plowing new strategies
for the new snow
coming…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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