9/11

9/11
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Two or Three Things
I am plankton.
Maurice Sendak

I'm thinking of my blistered inner
arms and my fingers ravaged
by poison ivy or maybe it is
oak this fall, on the one
hand, and, on the other, the breaking news
that Lyla has begun to talk to
everyone, adults
included, at her
kindergarten, and how
I wish that this
was the whole of
the news of the day,

in other words,
that we contain
multitudes and make
and remake our
selves time
after time, and yet

we may find ourselves
some luminous Tuesday
morning late
in the summer
in some tall
building in the heart
of the capital of the world
or on some flight
from here to there.

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