Tracks

Covering up shoe prints
To look rail thin
The ice in valley
Snow in bank

To carve a notch
Hard into the earth
Dig to China
Or just straight through

Perhaps a meet
In the middle
Some other gouge
Providing a deep recession
Slowly chipping away
To the core

Not a fire;
Dragging feet
Too quickly
Along the same road
Again and again
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2.11.11