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Thursday, 4 October, 2001, 10:59 GMT 11:59 UK
Reflecting on the attacks
![]() A fire-fighter rests on a dust-covered bench
To mark National Poetry Day, Mario Petrucci, the poet-in-residence at the Imperial War Museum, has recorded a work for BBC News Online.
Because the events of 11 September were so harrowing - and because pain and anger are still so close to the surface - Petrucci says he saw nothing poetic in the burning towers. Instead, he wrote Late September to reflect the sense of the vulnerability of life. Listen to the poem by clicking here.
Or, read the poem for yourself, below. Explaining his poem, Petrucci says: "World events filter through to most of us through the slight and personal - those very things we may see in a fresh light when so much is threatened. And they can help us.
"A fragile sapling, or a spider in its web, can bear enormous emotional and metaphorical weight. It is in this spirit that I offer Late September."
LATE SEPTEMBER
There'd been dew. Maybe a light rain.
the pincer legs measure out each wire. That
to stand on. Craned. I wanted to live.
it froze mid-air, eight legs outstretched, still
waylay across carpet to end in a smudge.
mosquito and bluebottle, those who might ruin
between window and washing line. How
the angles - but not the freak impending thunder,
skim, unknowing, through that hard-earned web.
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