CREATIVE BRIEF
April 10, 2010
Jerry Gantgen’s World Trade Towers/Statue of Liberty Photograph
Working Title: “Memories”
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My car was on Church Street ten blocks north of the World Trade Center where I usually parked when I came into the city. I glanced down the wide avenue to see the towers gleaming in the early morning light. I got into my car at 8:30 on Sept.
The story that I present is an eyewitness account of 9/11 from my perspective. I worked at Deloitte & Touche at 2 WFC, across the street from the WTC. I was there on 9/11/01 and this is what I experienced.
I began this poem on September 11, 2001, after hearing the reports of the attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
My relationship to the World Trade Center has been serendipitous. I remember I wasn’t that impressed when they were built. I was around 7 years old when they were finished, I remember having no opinion.
The images of September 11 2001--the falling and the fallen, that clear blue sky, the striped structure of the towers, the smoke and fire-- visually define the beginning of a new reality.
My name is Clare Gibson, and in my spare time, I am a member of my Church's Poetry Group, and we create 2 booklets every year, and ask for donations, the proceeds of which go to a local homeless charity.
