That day,

In the 6th Communications Squadron building

I was on a project for the general

Designing a poster for the Corona conference

Where all the commanding generals meet

And the news was on the television in our office

Sometimes running in the background while we worked

On my monitor was the Tampa skyline

With the Blue Angels Cessna flying over

My hands gliding as it moved

Across the cityscape over the terrain and towers

Then someone turned the television up

And I turned my head to see

Myself caught in synchronicity as

The American Airlines Flight 11 &

United Airlines Flight 175

Crashed into North and South towers

of the World Trade Center

Surreality dawned on me

Later that day the General asked

To move the plane further away from the skyline

And you know what?

I couldn’t blame him

#skyline