Contributor Series 1: 9/11 Threnody for the Survivors of September 11, 2001By Ray Sharp(written September 2009) The angel of death flew on silver wings.Strange solitary birds clad in dark feathersTumbled through the bright blue sky. A blizzard of confetti–scraps of livesTorn asunder–swirled on air currents stirredBy three thousand souls, or by their absence. Tall towers […]
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Contributor Series 1: 9/11, Tuesday Morning Rising
Contributor Series 1: 9/11 Tuesday Morning RisingBy R. Scott DeSena(written September 7, 2009)The writer witnessed these events while driving to work on the NJ Turnpike on 9/11.Tuesday morning risingTwo shadowsTurnpikeTurn my mind to stoneTraffic screaming to a haltChills crawling to the bone. Fires for daysBillowing cloudsSmoke-filled ashFilled with lost soulsCrying for salvationA new terror unfolds. […]
Contributor Series 1: 9/11, Bone Fragments
As we approach the somber anniversary of 9/11, we inaugurate a new series: The Contributor Series. This is an ongoing, occasional series of collections of poems by writers whose work has appeared here already or is slated to appear in the near future. This, the first of the bunch, brings us poetry of 9/11. Each […]
Packing for Day Care
A different kind of first day experience as told to us by Texas writer Mariah Boone, whose poem Eclipse you’ve read here! Read more by Mariah at her blog, Lone Star Ma. This poem expresses not the first-time mother’s shock at the looming separation from her infant, but the seasoned mother’s sense of the surreal. […]
New Kid
Back-to-school poetry by Virginia’s own Jean M. Hendrickson! Each of Jean’s poems tells its own story in its own voice (Community and Death,), and this is no exception. Here we read about starting at a new school when it’s not a new experience. This is for all the kids starting at a new school for […]
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