My Bus Driver's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun

Sixty poets have just been chosen to have their poetry appear on buses for Seattle's annual Poetry on the Buses program. Here is an example of one poem, John Sutherland's Flagger Goddess, that was selected for the contest in 1999:

Girded in the tangerine vest of visibility,
The amber helmet of hardness,
I bear on my staff the power of the scarlet octagon,
And I command you to stop.

Another literary outreach program, Poetry in Motion, put together by the Poetry Society of America, has been enchanting transit patrons with poetry since 1992. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the initial brilliance of Judith Chernaik, who started the first transit poetry project on the London Underground in 1986.