OVERPASS BANNERS

by Tony Brown


Overpass banners
in red white and blue lettering
flapping above the commuter traffic:

Welcome home,
Sgt. Orozsco,
Private Kenney,
Major Dent.

Love you,
Corporal Bronson.

Thanks,
PFC Rodriguez.

I pass under them
almost daily
without much thought.

But the one this weekend
with the black letters
and black borders
that simply said

Sgt. Conroy:

every time I close my eyes
I can still see
how it was fastened tightly
by each corner
to the fence
and did not move at all.


Tony Brown of Worcester, MA has been writing, publishing, and performing his poetry for over thirty years. Pudding House Publications has just published his latest chapbook Flood.
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