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Senior Audra Noble Presents Poetry Reading at 9/11 Commemoration
On Friday, September 10, the Barnard community gathered for a ceremony in commemoration of the third anniversary of September 11th. President Shapiro placed flowers under the memorial red bud tree, and Audra Noble '05 presented a poetry reading. Following are the poems that Noble read:
A Photograph From Sept. 11
One, two jumped form the burning stories, down,
a few more higher,
lower.
A photograph caught them and now preserves them
above ground, toward the ground.
They are still whole
with there own faces,
blood well hidden.
There is still time,
for the hair to be tossed,
and for keys and small change
to fall from their pockets. They are still in the realm of the air,
within the places
which have just opened.
There are only two things I can do for them
--to describe this flight
and not to add a final word.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Deadheading the geraniums, I see myself
as I am, almost naked in the heat,
trying to support a little universe
of blackening pinks, wilted by rain and sun,
stooping and quivering under my scissors
as I cut the rotten blossoms form the living,
as a man alone fills a void with words,
not to be consoling or point to what is good,
but to say something true that has body,
because it is proof of his existence.
Henri Cole
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