Bright sun, mackerel sky
Hallucinatory images—
The outer limits are upon us
It’s The twilight zone,
The edge of night in glaring day
First one plane – an accident perhaps
Then the other – and we know
We’ve entered the new abnormal
There’s life before
and life after
the terrorist fireball,
human missiles
plummeting
out of sight
from 90 stories
captured
for posterity
on the personal video
that reels and reels
in living color
inside our heads
Instant incineration,
Pompeian dust
a New Holocaust
preserved at the bottom
of Manhattan,
Where the Hub of the Universe
meets Jihad.
…………….CJLanger 9/20/01