Poem 14: Thoughts While Walking Around the Future School of Pharmacy, WNEC

1. How the steel superstructure is like
   an Alexander Calder sculpture.
   
2. Maybe it's this low light.
   
3. That American flag on top of the idle crane,
   fluttering so high, like a toy.
   
4. The steel beams, spray painted with assembly
   instructions: gold in light, black in shadow.
   
5. A man in a Hummer, speeding out into traffic.
   The driver wears camouflage.
   
6. A sketch on a sign: the building, so optimistic.
   
7. The steel: America, its (once) broad shoulders.
   
8. White office trailers, parked in a row
   in the corner of the fence.
   
9. Maybe I was wrong about my dad.
   
10. In vertical letters on the cage arm
    of the crane: THINK SAFETY
    
11. I pause at the fence and watch two men, under
    the steel spires, next to a wood table
    with drawings laid out.
    
12. They have hard hats on, sweatshirts,
    and hammers in the loops of their pants.
    
13. They are the only people on site.
    
14. What are they talking about?