Five Years after the Last Flagging Assignment
...The dryer hums,
and my clothes are drying.
It rained earlier, but now
the sun is peering through clouds.
As I awaken, the morning is still.
I sit at a table in the front room
and it creaks.
Wh...
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Categories:
flagger, age, home, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Flagger- PS
...My partner called out cars she sent
as we stood at opposite ends
of the work zone, and when
hers had passed, I called out mine
sending them along a narrow passage.
We found a common language
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Categories:
flagger, allegory, career, friend, home,
Form: Free verse
Flagger Exam
...The sign you hold:
a) says either stop or slow
b) is a matter of perception
c) makes for moments of conversation
d) is a pause in time
When one lane is closed:
a) cars must st...
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Categories:
flagger, appreciation, environment, humor,
Form: List
Staeper-Elcyc
...Eye Liner pencil, cell phone accessible music stream;
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
Knees and toes...
It would appear those two extremities’ are operating this motor vehicle
While under the i...
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Categories:
flagger, muse,
Form: Free verse
His Last Parade
...Not a flag was unfurled,
and no cornet trilled,
as the rain-swollen clouds,
the bleak valley filled.
The wind blowing cold
with a chill that pervades
as the caisson's old wheels
creaked thr...
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Categories:
flagger, america, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Epitaph