ARCANGEL

Waves in the Volga
by the S.S. Pushkin
abandoned by geography
and the dark Gulag's history
in the Arcangel steppes
and sounds of Stalin's crimes
bubble up in the waves
of the Terror times
as I'm catching up
on Dostoyevsky's "Notes
of the Underground"
in the mystery and trouble
which will not disappear
nor found on love letters
saved in the Neva.