"Troopers" (for Martha Ronk)

Irish cross--small
white ceramic-- with
the circle--as if John
Wayne were too a Druid
going round by round
chamber click chamber--
It-I mean the Celtic cross--
glows in the afternoon sunlight.
So think life and death,
think death in life.
Think round beer bottle
stains on the bar--but think.
The cross will glow until
the sun goes down.