Invitation To Ground Zero Poem by William Jay Smith

Invitation To Ground Zero



Into the smouldering ruin now go down:
And walk where once she walked and breathe the air
She breathed that final day on the burning stair
And follow her, beyond the fleeing crowds,
Into the fire, and through the climbing clouds.

Into the smouldering ruin now go down:
And find, in ashes bright as hammered tin,
A buried bone-white naked mannikin
That flung from some shop window serves to bind
Her body, and its beauty, to your mind.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Caleb Murdock 16 September 2020

Setting aside for the moment the unusual punctuation, this poem is (in my opinion) one of the most beautiful and haunting poems in the English language. I wish that I could write like this.

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