Sterling Clarren, MD, FAAP
Trips were cancelled
Then the parties
The bar mitzvah
The memorial service
And
The schools
The shops
The offices
The restaurants
The borders
All closed
We sit by the window
The cherry and apple blossoms
Explode white and pink
Against a clear blue sky
Proclaiming the spring
As the radio announces the
Death of the first one
I knew
We sit by the window
And watch
And wait