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| In vigil What I like best is standing tall together in the driving rain at the corner of the intersection my left foot planted behind the pole anchoring one end of the banner that the gusts belly that the rain bounces off like silver seed observing the orderly relentless movement of traffic the street lights conducting each car’s pause pace and sequence through convergence the drivers glancing out through glass through sheeting rain to see a line of women most in black with colorful umbrellas still in the moving weather holding banners their hands holding out another way of seeing what I like best is seeing motley multi- colored America pass by this one spot on which I and my sisters have planted our selves and watching rainwater slide down the face of old commercial buildings the cars stream by without pausing but often often drivers lean on the horn which I translate you’re standing there for me or inscrutable passengers turn to stare their eyes move across the letters of a new language and take what they need to think about the girlfriends the children driven from here to there a flicker an instant of contact will one of them remember when I was a child one day it was raining I saw a long line of women standing on the street standing there for peace I saw that could be done Lee Sharkey (c) Lee Sharkey, 2006 |
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