Butler Pennsylvania XXVI

On September 11
when it happened
we had to
think about
our thin brick walls
that kept standing
here
in the heartland
and
only our tears
would not stop
falling.




Butler Pennsylvania XXVII

(September 21)

The news
has reached
us
that
New York
buildings
have started
to get up
early
again
just to feel
the first sunlight
on their faces
and down along
their
sides.



Butler Pennsylvania XXVIII

(September 30)

Late one night
in infamous September
the Court House clock
failed
to strike the hour
and seconds passed
before
a raven
glided down
into the Square
where I, still awaiting
the sound,
watched it circle
and alight upon
a chilled monument
of granite
at eye level
to face me
intently
before lifting off for
the tower turret
whence it had come,
and look down at me
now
as if in triumph.


Butler Pennsylvania XXIX
(October)

I can hear
September's
leaf
following
me
down
the asphalt
surface
of Locust Street
cartwheeling
on pins
when suddenly,
it stops --
just
to see
if I'll turn
to look.



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