Monday, September 11, 2006

Spectator

Five years ago this date
9/11 is one of those
where we remember
exactly what we were doing.

Five years ago I went
out in my yard somewhere
in Maryland eveningtide
a gorgeous sunset - silence.

Murmuring of the cars
occasional fly-over of planes
bustling children - nothing
birds' chirping - deafened.

It is with this quiescence
that I shall remember
the souls of September
the sonic deathliness.

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