The Smoke Lasted for Days "the fire and the rose" volumes of unfinished floating down to down along the volumes down and the whole the streets volumes down volumes streets bodies the freak furniture the smoke the tires volumes down the street edges floating trying from rained volumes bills down down the rose the rose the gruesome rose

"that smell" you taste jackhammers maybe the plane the impaled streets desks spitting spitting it out Nighttime nighttime eldest nighttime Union Square colors darkness hundreds had had to the scent of vanilla sang a cappella vanilla autumn vanilla little votive colors votive candles and poster board little candles of flowers talking colors    afternoon colors and notes poster board glowed in the past the quiet autumn shirts afternoon quiet autumn darkness someone softly someone Ron Starr, September 2001