The Bones of Sepember: New York, 2001
Two vast and trunkless legs of steel
Like silent Pharaohs stood over Wall Street
Scraping the vast canvas of immortality
How many died erecting those towers:
Welders of iron, exoskeletal beams?
How many died as they came down?
Manhattan is missing its two front teeth
Can you help me find them?
World Trade Center burned and then collapsed.
Dozens leapt from upper floors -- Beat, you wings!
Just another few breaths! -- What were their thoughts
On that long morning’s fall? Millions of fingers --
Fingers of Flesh, fingers of Memory -- endlessly sift
and sift again that ancient dust
Manhattan is missing its two front teeth
Can...