A Night in September

by Alexandria Wyckoff


Two sturdy twins toppled by planes hell-bent on destruction. Broadcasted into school rooms and power plants, the moment of silence stretched across the world like the first rumbles of an earthquake. Young lovers returned home to grasp for something – someone. Two weeks earlier their first try at a family was plucked away like the tomatoes in the garden, where frost marched across supple scarlet flesh and claimed its victim. My mother became an empty earth that prepared for a new transplant. Two days after the fall, heartburn swarmed into my mother’s chest and she knew.


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Alexandria Wyckoff has a BA in Creative Writing from SUNY Oswego. She has been previously published in Gandy Dancer, Planisphere Q, The Ana, The Pensieve, and Quillkeepers Press. Find more of her work at: https://lwyckoff2002.wixsite.com/alexandria-wyckoff