Revision: Walking Around the Future School of Pharmacy

1. Maybe it's this low light.
   
2. How the steel superstructure is like
   an abstract expressionist sculpture.
   
3. That American flag on top of the idle crane,
   fluttering way up high, like a toy.
   
4. The steel beams, spray painted with assembly
   instructions: gold in light, black in shadow.
   
5. A Hummer, speeding out into traffic.
   The driver wears camouflage.
   
6. A sketch on a sign: the building, its spare lines
   drawn in pencil, optimistic.
   
7. The steel in the beams is probably from China.
   
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. Two men, under the steel spires,
    next to a wood table with drawings splayed,
    have clean white hard hats on,
    and cell phones looped to their belts.
    
12. It's a weekday afternoon, and
    there are no other workers around.