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I hear them screaming through the sound of falling and splashing and stumbling down staircases. Of mangled steel twisting glass and concrete skins ripping away from the building’s skeleton. I hear the slithery rush of jet fuel scrambling down chases and elevators at first and second impact, the aftershock. Igniting fireballs through the hallway. [...]
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Solitude Amidst the Maddening Crowd
The Reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Literature, Memoirs, Poetry, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Social Commentary, Society, Travel, tagged aftershock, agony, alarm, anguish, ash, avalanche, away, bar, bell, breath, brothers, building, cacophony, candle, cards, carnage, chase, children, concrete, cry, day, deck, distant, down, dust, earthquake, elevator, engraved, erosion, explosion, extinguish, extraordinary, fall, fate, father, fireball, first, floor, forgotten, foundation, fragile, frozen, fuel, glass, gradual, grief, ground, hallway, hearing, hearts, helpless, horror, husbands, ignite, impact, innocent, jet, lamentation, listen, little, mad, mangle, memory, men, mess, mid-air, missing, mother, name, pain, panic, people, poem, poetry, polish, powder, prayer, reading, remembrance, rip, roar, rock, rubble, rush, scramble, scream, second, shock, sigh, silence, siren, sisters, skeleton, skin, slab, slither, slow, sound, splash, staircase, stampede, steel, stone, stumble, suspension, symphony, tangle, tear, time, toll, topple, trap, tremble, trickle, twist, undiminished, unison, unlatch, water, weakening, whispers, wisp, wives, women, world, zero on January 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I hear them screaming through the sound of falling and splashing and stumbling down staircases. Of mangled steel twisting glass and concrete skins ripping away from the building’s skeleton. I hear the slithery rush of jet fuel scrambling down chases and elevators at first and second impact, the aftershock. Igniting fireballs through the hallway. [...]
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