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Poems by Jane Miller
A Young Poet
Poems about Tragedy
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Blood
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Falling
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Oklahoma City: The Aftermath
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Poem for Japan
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Shirt
by Robert Pinsky
Song ["When I am dead, my dearest"]
by Christina Rossetti
Survivors--Found
by Joan Murray
What God Knew
by Marianne Boruch
You Can't Survive on Salt Water
by Kalamu ya Salaam
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by Jane Miller

Do you know how long it has been since a moral choice presented itself

and the wrong choice was made

not two minutes

why is it not quiet between lightning and thunder as if someone were asking

do you have other articulable feelings  if so express them now

tragedy ensues

with a laser blast from the cockpit

the dangled finger of God makes contact

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