(details)

The final

numbers

are just now
coming
through.

This matters.

Listen
to this, commit
it
to memory,

the voices
of the newscasters
as they recount
the recounted.

This moment is
the least
of it.

Listen carefully.

This moment is
the last
of us.

CC Russell has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction here and there online and in print. You can find his words in such places as Split Lip Magazine, The Colorado Review, and the anthology Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone. He resides in Wyoming where he sometimes stares at the mountains when he should be writing. More of his work can be found via ccrussell.net and Dodging The Rain.