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9.14.01

Images 
among 
images 
thousands 
of fleeting 
video 
vision 
the networks 
use to instill 
us with horror, 
fear, 
anger, 
sorrow 
and hate. 

I am 
possessed 
by one 
of a young child 
at an anonymous 
candle vigil 
looking toward his 
mother, 
her smiling, 
he leaning 
to cradle 
his head 
in the soothing 
arc of her neck 
and shoulder 
and 
of 
the children 
unnamed 
uncounted 
who have 
lost 
their 
soothing 
arc 
of flesh 
of smile 
of soul.