all the small things

Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" was published in the New Yorker shortly after September 11th, 2001, but it's not certain if it was written about or in response to 9/11. However, the poem can be interperted in a way that reflects on that day. The tone of the poem is not of anger or hatred, but reflection on the good things, the small things, the things that mean the most. And after 9/11 I think that's what everyone did; they realized all the small and beautiful things that make life worth while instead of focusing on and getting lost in the hatred and anger.

~MR