
When Is Again

EXTRANET AT OAK AND ELM
The man on the phone
notices the frail old lady
waiting timid at the corner
Boy Scout still at heart
holds her elbow gentle
as they cross the busy street
Half turns and presses Send
to the threat to bomb the temple
OR ~
He pauses, smiles, and taps Delete
You choose the ending
MADRID, MARCH 2004
God, Spain again
scraping Guernicas from
walls of trains
TERRORISTS
The Eleventh of September
A day the world should long remember
Pillars of democracy brought to the ground
Innocent thousands dead all around
New York, New York, you say
I was still thinking of Chile
I was still thinking
of Nineteen Seventy Three