[創作] Upon Visiting the 9/11 Memorial in New

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Upon Visiting the 9/11 Memorial in New York City This place is much changed. Where once there was a plaza, and underground mall, and two towers (of course), there is now a chaos of concrete and new-grown trees. You can still see the Hudson from here; when the towers went down, you couldn't see your own feet. And yet they were not deterred, those who heeded the cries for help, the calls that made it through the switchboard, the desperation. The earthly rumble and wall of smoke. Bodies falling from the sky. In they went, not knowing the cause of this (lacking the word let's call it) disaster; how many were lost when the second tower collapsed in on itself, as if sucked into hell, or more accurately as if hell were raised up into the sky to swallow it whole? Rubble remained, and toxic fumes, but lost was the heart of the city, gone was the light of the nation. And though we rebuild--bigger, taller-- our hearts will ever sink when recalling that day and how so many lives kept falling, falling. -- p2: defenestrate -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 114.42.219.122 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/poetry/M.1561285960.A.033.html
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The memorial is a large square hole in the middle
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of the concrete space, surrounded by railings
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with mounted plaques that have first responder
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names engraved on them; water flows down all four
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sides into the hole, forming a pool of water; in
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the middle of that pool is a smaller square, into
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which the water flows, as if without bottom.
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