Marilyn, I find these images very powerful.  I think it might be worth
working on them more a bit later.  Perhaps some could be cut back slightly
to make them even starker.  For example, not sure that you need solemnly in
8. or both beloved and missing in 11. or American in 15.   I love clay and
flayed steel and very much like these short clipped images because they seem
emotionally appropriate and real.
bw
c


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> >
> >     9/11   "Oh the Humanity"
> >
> >
> >           1.
> >
> >           after flying bombs
> >         dogs search for human scent
> >         under the rubble
> >
> >         2.
> >
> >         fire caldron, grumbling
> >         blasts of warmth
> >         Evil's breath devours
> >
> >         3.
> >
> >             concrete dust on tongue
> >         taste of burnt wires and rubber
> >         soot-filled eyes still hope
> >
> >         4.
> >
> >           blackest of black
> >         after the collapse, he can't see
> >          his hand in front of face
> >
> >         5.
> >
> >           rage implodes towers
> >         hatred's hammer to the heart
> >         now - nails for unity
> >
> >         6.
> >
> >         thunder storm
> >         crosses the Hudson, tear-streaked
> >         clay and flayed steel
> >
> >
> >
> >         7.
> >
> >          World Trade Center
> >         traded by jackals
> >         for destruction, war
> >
> >         8.
> >
> >         asked how many gone
> >         the mayor solemnly replies,
> >         "more than we can bear"
> >
> >         9.
> >
> >         pink lilies on hood
> >         etched on dust-covered window
> >         "God Bless America"
> >
> >
> >         10.
> >
> >         written with felt markers
> >         names and social security numbers
> >         on search and rescuers' arms
> >
> >         11.
> >
> >            each clutches a photo
> >         of their missing beloved
> >         to mount on wall of prayers
> >
> >         12.
> >
> >            twisted steel
> >         a fiend's accordion -
> >         debris of earthly tent
> >
> >
> >
> >         13.
> >
> >         no special effects
> >         in SCI fi thriller - severed towers
> >         and toppling bodies real
> >
> >         14.
> >
> >         reeled over and over -
> >         Persistence of Memory
> >         melted clocks, imploded dreams
> >
> >         15.
> >
> >            My neighbor's American flag billows
> >         On the screen, lines of people wait
> >         to buy their symbol and solace
> >         The stars and stripes are sewn
> >         inside my heart.
> >
> >
> >                     Marilyn Injeyan
> >                     September 14, 2001
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