(x = space)

x

x

We Dial 9/11

x

Remembering is easy

Even through news windows

I can’t imagine

Falling all the way

Except in nightmares

The kind that say

Should we find the ground

In dreams

We die for real

x

For real

All the passengers

The bombers

In New York

In Pennsylvania

In Washington, D.C.

We have their names

To honor them

As best we may

Collectively

And with each heart

Directly changed

By impulse

Will

And so

By degree

x

Then with remembrance

Names on stone

Or marble

So many flags flying

At half-mast

And also living on

Quite normally

For it is part of normal

To be changed forever

Yet

Clean our houses

Shop outside

Do business that we have to

And if sponsored right

With satisfaction

x

There is life

We have it while we have it

Theirs is somewhere else

We study

But don’t really own

It seems

x

We’ll have to follow

Then we’ll know

We all will know

How we remembered

Through this life

And in pausing

x

Through moving on

Bearing more metal weight

Each time

x

Go to Shanksville

Pass by the Pentagon

Visit the enormous squared

Marble

Set with names

And moving water

In New York

x

Remember

Pray for heaven

Then

For mercy

Somehow

Upon the Earth

x

C L Couch

x

x

Photo by Dawn McDonald on Unsplash

x