911 Hendiadys

Our mouths agape, we stand at maw and gape. At once both strange and odd, a lone spire aspires to replace a solitary figure of twins, reborn from dust and ash on high, a rise and phoenix, both monument and towering testament of will, lost souls in sole remembrance. ————— *A hendiadys, or ‘one through two’, is a literary device for describing one thing as two, such as ‘maw and gape’ instead of ‘gaping maw’, ideally creating ambiguity as to meaning. Hendiadys is also often referred to as a ‘figure of twins’.