Friday, September 9, 2016 |
Sacramento, CA
Joey Garcia is known in the Sacramento region for her advice columns in the Sacramento News & Review.
She is also known for her poem "After 9/11." She joins Insight in memory of what transpired and to talk about the meaning behind her poem.
Below is her poem following the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.
After 9/11
No one admits
that every breath
drags in ashes
of unintended martyrs.
Call it communion
if you are still religious,
this mingling of your body and blood
with people you normally jostle
on the street,
each of you wearing
that anonymous commuter face.
But nothing can save us
from the arpeggio of dying
and rising, the body’s
messianic march.
And when you expire,
who will breathe you in?