One Day in September
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**Trigger Warning: 9-11 remembrance.**
The horde attacks,
and the towers fall.
Screams abound, and
bodies tumble.
A high school friend,
a flight attendant on
the second airliner,
perishes on that day.
The center of defense
loses more lives, and
the country shudders,
on that September day.
A fourth plane hurtles
toward D.C., and the
people rise, offering
their lives for the U.S.A.
“Let’s roll!” is their cry.
The world doesn’t breathe
on that catastrophic day.
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Paula Frew
Transplanted from Ohio to Kentucky to be near her only daughter and three young grandsons, the author wrote her first poem in the fourth grade. She fell in love with the form and was first published in an anthology at fourteen. A battle with multiple sclerosis has caused her to find her home in a nursing home, where she has found time to craft her poetry as well as time to teach writing to other residents. She has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies, including Ohio Bards and The Walt Whitman Anthology.
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