It Rained in September

It rained in September

A rain of tears

A rain of blood

A rain of bone

A rain of fears

A rain of bodies

A rain of falling rubble

And twisting steel

Girders that flatten

Like toothpicks

Crushed

In two mighty maws

With jaundiced

Giant concrete teeth

It woke us up early in the morning

And consumed the air waves

It rained so hard that day

There was nothing left over

But rubble, broken bodies and bits and pieces

Of paper fluttering in the smoke

It rained cats and dogs

And people and firemen and tears and blood

It rained businessmen and secretaries

It rained passengers and airplanes

It rained policemen and pilots

It rained even more paper and people

It rained over the cars

Over the streets

And the rain

Falling like steel and concrete hail

Shattered windows and lives and spirits

It rained ceaselessly

And it rained thereafter

Day after day

And all that rain

Fell complete on one small spot

In downtown Manhattan

But from that spot

It quickly became a torrential flood

That engulfed the entire earth

The Great Wall Revisited

Trails in the Snow

1991-1993