snow crosses an american flag
as the wind blows and the sky
is like a map of all the conquering
done in the name of a young nation
every high and low place every broad
plain or stabbing river flag furling
and unfurling in victory over forgetting
all the people shoveled into the earth
or gathered together and burned
but then a flag is just a flag and the
blowing wind suggests nothing as
the flakes of snow and hail make the flag
look big and stand out against a turgid
rolling screen of clouds as we make new
friends and learn to see and speak parts of
new languages which suggests
everything possible before all of us
every one
more flurries across the front of a
flowing and wending american flag
we are all children sprung from disaster
crossing a great map in our minds which
constantly is changing and extending
giving everything any thing you'd wish to see
hope victory loss anger commitment
punishment or imagination a day
every day or no day at all let us have
the courage to know and be faithful
towards each other
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