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ON PROGRESS  
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Ruben Quesada

Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Brutal Companion
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_ In the shadow of 9/11, poet Ruben Quesada shows us the
destructiveness and death that come with "progress." _

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Beyond the amplitude of sky filling the pulverized windows,

    a plane plummets toward us. We evaporate into a cloud

      uttering cries that rise with an explosive shift

        of wind, like dust. Above these desks,

          pendant lightning pivots like the cacophonous cracking

            of a whip. The roof hurries to hush walls closing

              down upon us; see the swelling floor tiles

                swallow the room; we are weightless,

                  falling into each other, stuck like
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                    holding wounded steel and flame.

_Ruben Quesada is a poet, translator, and editor. He edited the
award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry.
His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry
Review, The Believer, and Harvard Review. His new collection of
poetry, Brutal Companion, which includes "On Progress," won the Barrow
Street Editors Prize._

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