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Voices from the Ashes Pantoumin the AftermathNaomi Ruth LowinskyPublished online: 17 Jan 2008.

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Voices from the Ashes Pantoum in the Aftermath

Naoini Ruth Lowinsky

where is m y body? who brushed teeth kissed the baby made the early train? whose spirit’s been knocked beyond breath? whose soul keeps running down a gone stairwell?

who brushed teeth kissed the baby made the early train? whose burning heart whose soul keeps running down the gone stairwell? where are my bones?

whose exploding lungs?

whow burning heart who wanders streets

where are your bones? take my blood it’s all i have to give

whose exploding lungs? shows strangers your smiling blown up

photograph ?

who wanders streets

whose hole whose holy whose ground zero? take my blood its all i have to give watch my red life stream into vials and vials

shows strangers your smiling blown LIP

photograph?

whose hole whose holy whose ground zero? i give y o u the life you stunted

watch my red life stream into vials and vials for i with only a box knife have brought your towers down

bombed in Bagdad made a prisoner of Sharon

i give you the life you stunted

i have crashed your Pentagon i am Geburah For i with only a box knife have brought pLir towers down i a m !.our nightmare

bombed in Bagdad

i am David

i poison your waters

made a prisoner of Sharon

i blow up your bridges

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N A O M I RUTH LOWINSKY V O I C E S F R O M T H E ASHES 3 3

i have crashed your Pentagon you the high and mighty carry buckets sift through rubble i am your nightmare i poison your water i blow up your bridges steel has melted buildings keep burning all is sulphur

i am David i am Geburah

you the high and mighty carry buckets sift through rubble we come from the same story steel has melted buildings keep burning all is sulphur your ashes are my ashes

your Abraham is my Ibraham

we come from the same story the veil is ripped your ashes are my ashes where is the angel Raphael

your Abraham is my Ibraham Azazel the wicked has his day

healer of war wounds guide in hell?

the veil is ripped where is your body? Where is the angel Raphael whose spirit’s been knocked beyond breath?

Azazel the wicked has his day

healer of war wounds guide in hell?

Naorni Lowinsky, Ph.D., is a Jiingian analyst and poet in Berkeley, CA. A of her poems, red clay is talking, was published by Scarlet Tanager Books (2000). She is the Poetry and Fiction Editor of Psychological Perspectives.

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