teaching/learning on 9/11

we had
each and all
been moving somewhere
somehow

on plains
in vales
of smoke and ash

then met
where
our collective breath held now
for
news

gaze enough
to see
to hear
from our devices
and
for some
of us
having to employ our senses
so
much closer in

thus goes that day
in hours

our
classroom experience
where
systems and who knows the frame
of Providence
by
unknown dimensions
set for us
by which
we
had been gathered

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