Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: This is a poem I wrote on the afternoon of 911, when I biked out onto the Trump pier in Riverside Park and looked downriver and noticed the skyline empty of the towers. Even I had looked at the TV images all morning, standing there on the pier was the first time it really hit me that something very precious and part of me had been yanked from my life. Standing there, my eyes sort of filled with tears and I biked back home on 103rd and West End and wrote the following... (I've put slashes in to indicate the end of lines in case the format breaks up in transmission). Jerry Mazza. 911 I look to the sky and they're gone, the Twin/ Trade Towers, as if two teeth were yanked/ with pliers of fire from the mouth/ of brassy New York, no novocaine/ or laughing gas to ease the pain,/ just the arms of happenstance to hold you/ from banging your head against the pavement,/ hearing the screams of thousands in the wind/ falling like angels from steel and glass,/ buried like mibcrobes in the tartar,/ leaving the scent of burning souls/ one hundred blocks away, this Tuesday,/ 9/11, no Friday the 13th/ to match the terror of this nightmare,/ silent crowds along the pier,/ runners and walkers, cyclers, bladers,/ America's children grown up fast,/ an aching, a bleeding from the gap/ where ashes and smoke cover the gone,/ while summer lingers in the trees/ and life goes on in Riverside Park,/ across the river assassins posing/ as neighbors, cheering from a rooftop,/ rendered null, void and Godforsaken/ in the thousand names of the nameless beyond./ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story387.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-12 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 64.12.101.168 Annotation Annotations to this item. Terrorism Victims NY:3 Notes Notes about this item. Poetry