she went thisaway!

"as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish"

can understanding
rebuild our nation's essence
that some's hate destroyed?

 

The Cost: Names   Photos

We'll Go Forward from this Moment
   — Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, Sept 12, 2001
(as a Powerpoint presentation)

. . . with dread of the future . . .

"the unreality of the awful thing you did"

eight years ere this day,
cruel dogma begat the death
of our innocence.

The Cost: Names   Photos

We'll Go Forward from this Moment
   — Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, Sept 12, 2001
(as a Powerpoint presentation)

. . . seared memory . . .

Obama is president

Barack Obama's
now 44th president:
expectations, hope.

"hot tears sting disbelieving eyes"

I shall never read
Pitts' commentary or see
the pictures without...

The Cost: Names   Photos

We'll Go Forward from This Moment
   — Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, Sept 12, 2001
Powerpoint presentation.

. . . seared memory . . .

olympics

stunning opening;
Phelps, Bolt; a thousand medals;
but Chinese passports...?

haiku, the thirtyth

dark has decended;
deer stands along town's outskirts –
slow the car some more.

birthday - three score

it's six oh today –
still think like a teenager;
bod rebuffs accord.

"unspeakable bastard"

beautiful morning,
fetched down by cruel assault –
infamy returned.

The Cost: Names   Photos

We'll Go Forward from This Moment
   -- Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald, Sept 12, 2001
Powerpoint presentation.

. . . I will remember . . .

independence day, 2007, senryu

"...so proudly we hailed..."
"...government of the people..."
Independence Day!

haiku, the twentysixth

driving without haste,
my hazy morning stretches
down the four lane road.