City Traffic
(by Eve Merriam)

Green as a seedling the one lane shines,
Red ripened blooms for the opposite lines;
Emerald shoot,
Vermilion fruit.

Now amber, now champagne, now honey: go slow:
​Shift, settle, then gather and sow.



(from It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme, 1964
and from Celebrate America in Poetry and Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994)

Slushing. From "No Gas," a portfolio of six lithographs, 1971, https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/slushing-from-the-portfolio-no-gas-9636