Dust on my keyboard

as I sit down to reach                           for a poem.

 

This town has changed

since that Thursday.

Charred fields

and brick-heavy hearts

 

I watched the smoke rise

and billow

until the sky turned black

 

I felt my own tender spirit swell

and burst,                                           not knowing where these tears were coming from

My soul’s sorrow,                              an unknown collective grief

 

 

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