Row Memory

Twin Towers, March 2001. Photo: Wikipedia (Public domain)

11 September 2025

By Philip Kuepper

The Twin Towers stood
a pair of oars
to the boat
of Manhattan,
oars that had rowed the boat
to wins, for decades,
until that September morn,
when they were blitzed
by enemy jets, mid-row,
and all exploded
in a deluge of loss.

(6 August 2025)

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