Half-Mast

Half-Mast


grey ribbons of rain
twining around the flagpole
drowning Old Glory


perhaps she should fly
permanently at half-mast
for present sorrow


not water enough
to sluice away the world's pain
when it rains, it pours


Written for: "The Writer's Cramp" 


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