2 explosions –
18 min apart:
while teaching
Ian: smoke billowing
Jet? accident?
doesnt seem possible--
                       (illegible)-
             after 2nd:
what why?
hideous
people –
one of those –


9/14: st vincents hotline

fewer callers,
calls beginning to get thru from
overseas, and now the children
are calling, not tiny kids
but 10, 11, 12, you can hear
the baby crying, or the adult,
the kids the only ones who speak
english, or are calm enuf
to take down information
& numbers – & now for the first
time, and from a child i hear
do you have the morgue number, the
address of the morgue, theres
a little girl named amaryllis,
she calls twice, & i think
its amaryllis, i know a
child the
first to ask
is there a list of
the dead
c. 2002