[Newspoetry] Closer to Qaeda

[Paul Kotheimer]

	Closer to Qaeda

[a takeaway poem 
from page A-1 of The New York Times,
Wednesday, March 6, 2002]

March 5
withering fire today
in these snow-
covered mountains,
a final
stand.

the fiercest
months of 
implacable
nightfall,
shuttling up into the
heart of the 
times,
90 miles north,
where
The enemy
is going to
die