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Along with the rest of the country, I have been
haunted, disturbed and downright disgusted with
what we were put through on Tuesday, September 11,
2001. It has affected us all deeply and I want to
personally offer my condolences and love and
prayers to the victims and their families.

We all have ways of dealing with our many feelings on
the matter and one of my ways is of course,
writing about it. So I thought it about time that
I shared a poem I wrote on the day of the attacks.

The Birds (for 09/11/01)

oh god
I can't fall under
static, static everywhere
on tv and
in the air
I thought I was safe when I
changed the channel but
it's snowing in New York
on a clear September morning
I think we had the first scoop
screams
like orchestration
and then this dark, pointed bird
a carnivorous, misguided thing
like origami slicing sky
lifted its baton
to make us cry
from the sidelines
on the street
WHY???
this panic is
like static
blanketing cars
sinking minds
and it's snowing in New York
on this clear September morning
no one prepared
for air to bite
(so hard to breathe)
no one stopped to think that lately
the birds have been flying low
and skimming scalps
and now
pointy antennae
buildings
tumbling
down
and I thought you made our love small.
That was nothing.
The smallest hearts
the weakest minds
have grown out of the rubble
erupting like a perverse Phoenix
gloating like a bloated ego
grinning in jagged metal
braces glimmering with pain
mocking ours and
they have this day
but not tomorrow.

I don't expect it to comfort as much as I hope to show
a glimmer of hope amidst all the darkness.