Author: Gary Beck Source: https://www.polseguera.com/writers/writing-331_in-memoriam.html In Memoriam Gary Beck/Contusions   In Memoriam   Once again that fateful day is remembered by some, while many are forgetting, as people always do, the shock and urgency of horrified reaction. And as the buildings fell, workers leaping from windows rather than burning to death, rescuers rushing in giving their lives for others.   A dust cloud rose obscuring the collapse of long term security, men and women running as fast as they could to escape mass destruction visiting our shores for the first time in the financial district, the bloodstream of our land to our many enemies eager to subtract us from ownership of a piece of America.   __________ Contusions is an unpublished poetry collection that explores the aches and pains we suffer from the assault of life.