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Sunday, August 30, 2020

FLAG

by Frederick Wilbur


An artwork by Banksy is seen in this image obtained from his Instagram account on June 6, 2020 [Banksy/Instagram/ via Reuters via Al Jazeera]


In the flag’s shadow
memorial flowers darken, wilt.
It is a black tatter
distressed by political wind.

Ours, for which it stands,
is in mourning—
the common good
is dead.


Frederick Wilbur’s second poetry collection Conjugation of Perhaps is available from mainstreetragbookstore.com.