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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

AERIAL

by James Penha


At the 9/11 Museum in New York, a 47,000-pound chunk of the antenna from the north tower of the World Trade Center.


                                                                                  “Stasis in darkness.” --Sylvia Plath


Charred
tumbled
mangled
fractured
fingers reach out gravely wirelessly magnetically
more cathartically than in decades of prideful
programming
atop the tower
broadcasting
now its own elegant and meteoric
fall.


James Penha edits The New Verse News.