That's Life?
Red White and blue
Stripes and stars jerkily rise to the top of the pole.
Stop wave in the wind flap flap flap
Then still unfurled lower slowly
Colors contrasting with misted greens in back ground trees
Stopping at half mast
To hang waving toward the waiting earth
His hands wrap the lanyards fast
Close the cover
Slip on the clasp
then drop to his thighs.
Three hornets
Wing out of the box
swirl ignored around his head
Then return to enter
under the re closed door.
For his absent friend
Death has begun to
Firmly settle in.
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