Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts

25 October 2006

LOOK AT ME ALASKA

In New Jersey we live stacked
1,134.4 persons per square mile,
frozen in a block of humanity.

In American Russia, where no
road leads to the capital,
1.1 people per square mile

breath fresh, Alaskan Air.

05 September 2006

Subway 8:46 a.m. September 11.

In a tunnel under the Hudson
riding to work, the first impact was
a subtle shake.

A shift of seismic energy
on the Richter scale,
a 2.3 magnitude shudder.

The subway did not stop,
but continue towards the
burning towers.

It rolled, without rushing,
under anchored beams, through the
station, and slid safely

back to New Jersey.




Inspired by the book , American Ground Unbuilding the World Trade Center
by William Langewiesche