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Ground Zero, Four Months Later

Rochelle Hope Mehr


Now they’ve built a platform
and people queue up for hours
to see for just three minutes
the puncture wound the planes made
surrounded by workers
searching for the dead.

They cry.
They pray
in some communion they try to establish
with the fellowship of the dead.

I find it gruesome
and disrespectful.
The diggers have their place.
They sully their hands
for the slightest chance to unearth
the flesh of their brethren, one
last incarnation of the innocent.

The perched gawkers grapple with air

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