POLISH WINTERS

By the winter of 1939
the world saw Hitler's mark
on graves of students ,farmers
and intellectuals
telling us of the stunned visibility
of evil and growing madness
from widows windows
and by the winter of 1949
his co signer of a death warrant
Stalin again emerges
this time on television
hiding his sweating and angry
from his eye witness darkness
in murder and deceit
from a war weary public
under the ice of propaganda
yet feeling shadows of spring
would yet emerge
even from the Katyn forest.