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We Dial 9/11

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We Dial 9/11

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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

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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

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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

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There is life

We have it while we have it

Theirs is somewhere else

We study

But don’t really own

It seems

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We’ll have to follow

Then we’ll know

We all will know

How we remembered

Through this life

And in pausing

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Through moving on

Bearing more metal weight

Each time

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Go to Shanksville

Pass by the Pentagon

Visit the enormous squared

Marble

Set with names

And moving water

In New York

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Remember

Pray for heaven

Then

For mercy

Somehow

Upon the Earth

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C L Couch

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Photo by Dawn McDonald on Unsplash

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A Coda for the Hero

A Coda for the Hero

 

A face broken by my pain

Looks down at me

While I fade into unbordered places

All perception rendered into

What will come

Sleep, I hope

And good dreams for a change

And wakefulness to a world

I could never know

Until I come upon it

You’ll be there

And everyone

The everyone I can recall

And so many new to meet and

Love for the first time

 

C L Couch

 

 

9/11 Photos, Creative Commons 2.0

https://americanlegalnews.com/hero-fbi-agents-and-first-responders-sick-and-dying-from-9-11-exposure/

 

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Emergency Calls

Emergency Calls

(remembering 9/11 in the USA)

 

Today in my part

We are remembering

A horrific attack on innocents

By crazy people

This kind of murder happens

Elsewhere

My country is not the battleground

So often

Syria, Yemen, Colombia, Myanmar

The Philippines, Somalia

Sudan

We’ve sometimes had a hand in these

That might have made the crazy

People crazier

Enacting their cause here

 

On this day, we remember here

Where death came to passengers,

Firefighters, office people, and

The rest

Companies of normal people

Noncombatants, we would say

If this were anything like war

Between fair nations

 

I suppose on planet Earth

Wars and war-like actions must

Happen in someone’s yard

The playing fields, business places

Farm, and town

We have few dedicated battle zones

The DMZ, maybe ocean surfaces

And depths

Air and now we think to weaponize

Space, above and beyond

 

So war must happen close to home

Inside

And things warlike, if not war

Which then we call killing

We call it murder

And I suppose on someone’s ugly surface

There is a plan to do it again

Pray that we stop it

And praise those who do

 

But as we honor peace

So may we honor them:

The victims, those who ran toward

The concussions of air and sound

And matter

Turned into explosion and horror

Metal, blood, and bone

All those who died first

First helpers

And the many who were saved

Who are with us, still

 

We are here

Remember

Celebrate

Pray for cessation

Pray for profusion

The horror gone

And peace prevail

 

C L Couch

 

 

By United States v. Zacarias MoussaouiCriminal No. 01-455-AProsecution Trial ExhibitsExhibit Number P200066Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Russavia using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15252009

 

 

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