Overcast Sky

    one morning     I saw     a black flag

fluttering     up there     in the sky

    the flag fluttered     back and forth     back and forth

inaudible     for it was     so high

    I wanted     to reel     it down

but without     rope     how could I?

    so the flag     just went     back and forth

dancing     in the depths     of the sky

    I recall     as a boy     many times

looking up     those mornings     back a while

    I saw one     that time     over fields

now     again     over city roof tiles

    this time     and that time     are so far apart

and this place     and that place     aren’t the same

    but black flag!     still you flutter     alone

back and forth     in the sky     unchanged!