Locus 9/11 

From the Jersey cliffs

I glance eastward 

toward the metropolis.

Television news replays 

the “high concept, low tech” attacks

like a carousel in a horror flick.

Old World sorrows superimpose

on the smoking skyline.

Bubbe thought  we’d be safe here.

-Nina R. Schneider

Nina R. Schneider teaches writing and literature at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Her short fiction has appeared in Quick Fiction and Pindeldyboz on line. She was named a finalist in the Moment Magazine short fiction contest (2004) and was a winner in the 2005 Short Story Contest sponsored by The Center for Arts in Natick and Morse Institute Library. She lives in the Boston area and is a member of Grub Street, Inc. writers' organization. This is her first poem to be published in the New Vilna Review.