A Room in the Inn (On the day after 9/11)

A young woman

passing near Ground Zero,

eyes full of subtext, stricken with grief 

took a knee on a desolate street

and pleaded 

to the ghostly aftermath

Impregnate me!

Father me a child!

Make me a vessel for the

Suddenly homeless…

The dead are knocking...

and I have one

empty

room!