Just Checking
Did anybody see
the crossing guard
this morning?
5’2, out there
under the Brooklyn
Bridge between
six rows of traffic,
white gloves
conducting
lanes forward,
sun hitting her
metallic vest
in rush hour?
Did you hear
her silver whistle
start & stop
everything as
wires crisscrossed
above her,
shooting out
toward
another day
where hundreds
of tourists
walk the path,
making it
to Brooklyn,
only to turn around
& immediately
head back?