(Photo of Ground Zero, New York City, 2001)

A year later, I’m still seeing
chalk and charcoal,
and all those diagonals,
fighting like mad to stand up
on that carpet of skin and bones.

© 2011, Dorothea Grossman

Dorothea Grossman lives and writes in Los Angeles, California, and has a poetry CD with trombone improvisations by Michael Vlatkovich, Call and Response. Several of her poems appear in About Poetry’s seasonal anthologies: “Spring” is in our Spring Poems collection, “Summer Three Ways” is in Summer Poems (where else?), and “In the Library” is part of our Autumn Poems collection.

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