from Working Ground Zero

Every few seconds
Another one would go
I didn’t understand
How they could jump
There was nowhere to land
They floated above us briefly
Like angels who couldn’t fly
Hypnotized, I watched and thought,
This is wrong
We shouldn’t look
But I couldn’t turn away
As Icarus fell from the sky
Over and over again.


SCARED

When the building exploded
I was sure I would die
There was the sound of screaming
As everyone ran
I want to go back and see where I stood
I couldn’t look when the stones started falling
But the woman beside me, crying,
Those people at the phones?
Did you see those people at the phones?
I could hear her as I fled
Afraid for my life

c. 2002