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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRACER BULLET, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER
First Line: In a straight line
Last Line: The scaffold's uneasy floor.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bullets; Patriotism; Soldiers; Weapons; Ammunition
First Line: In a straight line
Last Line: The scaffold's uneasy floor.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bullets; Patriotism; Soldiers; Weapons; Ammunition
In a straight line
Back to the cell
Runs this costly deed.
Concealed for long in the web of talk,
The tapping of typewriter keys,
Cigarettes at midnight,
The clasping of hands, drinks, commonplace expressions,
"O. K."—"Let's go"—
It points from an abstraction of mind
To the less simple physical end.
So the soldier stands at last
Far from the flags on the avenue,
The bullet whistling toward him;
Or the dreamer
Feels beneath his feet
The scaffold's uneasy floor.
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