Hello, I am from New York so I might be reading too much into the poem. My thoughts went to September 11. She is using the operator because that is her link out. She imagines herself standing before the glass wall high over Lake Shore Drive, the cars below fanning into the city. She is inside one of the towers imagining the outside walls as those where her brother lives. East she can see all the way to Gary and the great gray clouds of exhaustion rolling over the lake where her vision ends. This is where her brother lives. She sees the exhaustion of the "cars" or the smoke of the fires. At such height there's nothing, no birds, no growing, no noise. She leans her sweating forehead against the cold glass, shudders, and puts down the receiver. She is high in the towers away from life - shudders, resolved to the situation, puts down the receiver. I have never been good at inferences in poetry but these were my initial thoughts. Karen _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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