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Saturday, September 11, 2021

9/11: 20 Years Later

—Public Domain Photo


 GROUND ZERO 
—Robert Creeley, Buffalo, NY
 
What's after or before

seems a dull locus now

as if there ever could be more


 
or less of what there is,

a life lived just because

it is a life if nothing more.


 
The street goes by the door

just like it did before.

Years after I am dead,


 
there will be someone here instead

perhaps to open it,

look out to see what's there—


 
even if nothing is,
or ever was,

or somehow all got lost.


 
Persist, go on, believe.

Dreams may be all we have,

whatever one believes


 
of worlds wherever they are—

with people waiting there

will know us when we come


 
when all the strife is over,

all the sad battles lost or won,

all turned to dust.
 


____________________

—Medusa