Waiting for a Green Sign by Carol Louise Moon

We are stuck, you and I,

in a jagged frame of time:

no two minutes are equal.

Sit quietly, if we must sit, and

wait patiently for the next thought

to materialize into a sign board

propped against that wooden chair.

From this vantage point

(you and I on the edge of our bed)

we will wait for a large green arrow

to inform us if we shall walk

down the hall to dine, or

gather your collar-and-leash

and allow you to walk me

through the garden.

Either way,

wait for the green arrow

and stop visualizing a stop sign.

Carol Louise Moon is a Simulated Client Actor, and a poet who has work published in Suisun Valley Review (CA), California Quarterly, Everything Stops and Listens (Ohio), Time of Singing (PA), Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine (UK) and Sacramento Voices anthologies.