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Thundering at Daybreak

Thundering at Daybreak

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Cynthia Bagley
Sep 11, 2013
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In Remembrance of September 11, 2001

As cold sweat pours from my body, I wake to dark hounds baying at fleeing gray hares: to sounds of war thundering at daybreak.

Oh, Holy Fool, quaking for Allah, break the fox's chains, the fox who cowers in lairs; as cold sweat pours from my body, I wake

knowing the hound, the fox, the hares will take us from peace of h…

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