Previously Published on Chicago Literati . . .

Cleansing

            after City in White, artist Osnat Tzadok

The concrete emanates an almost-

innocence in the snow.  Though rapidly

graying from exhaust, it glistens with promise

of rejuvenation, a new beginning with every

clinging flake.  This slick coat is not considered

fashionable, quickly shoveled, loaded into trucks,

taken to anonymous gravesites

somewhere on the other side of the skyscrapers.

I imagine the melting piles, looking back

at their fallen home.  Do they miss the metal

shadows, mourn the misunderstanding of cold?

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