An Ordinary Autumn Morning

The park still wears a light mist over its grassy reaches. Autumn and the trees are losing their leaves. Children are getting ready to go to school. An old woman is pushing a shopping trolley full of her possessions along the street. The homeless emerge from cardboard boxes. The days are getting colder. A crane on a nearby building site begins to turn slowly, lifting a metal cage up off the ground and into a clear sky. This is ground zero.