September Twelfth, 2001
X.J. Kennedy
Two caught on film who hurtle
From the eighty- second floor,
Choosing between a fireball
And to jump holding hands,
Aren’t us. I wake bedside you,
Stretch, scratch, taste the air
The incredible joy of coffee
And the morning light.
Alive, we open eyelids
On our pitiful share of time,
We bubbles rising and bursting
In a boiling pot.