SOMEONE WILL RAKE UP THE ROSES
(After September 11)
someone will stand in
the rain where a MISSING
sign was posted, thumb
tacks on a light pole
all that's left. Someone
will imagine the missing
under glass in a museum,
on the slick page of a
book of faces of the
missing. Some will drift
like ash, like what was
left of the flame birds, the
ones holding hands
who leaped
(By Lyn Lifshin @2001)
(After September 11)
someone will stand in
the rain where a MISSING
sign was posted, thumb
tacks on a light pole
all that's left. Someone
will imagine the missing
under glass in a museum,
on the slick page of a
book of faces of the
missing. Some will drift
like ash, like what was
left of the flame birds, the
ones holding hands
who leaped
(By Lyn Lifshin @2001)



