"We Breathe You In" by Patti Tana

      In the poem "We Breathe You in" by Patti Tana, you can see as the poem as talks about present & future. It describes a bit about the scenery that day"air in clouds of smoke the clouds we feared when first we saw the desert fire." The toned was fearful as the poem says "Oh no not me not here not where I am I want to be not here not me." It describes how others there must have felt very fearful. How so many people didn't want to be there. In the second paragraph it talks about how the ones who died that day soul's now reside with ours, now we honor & remember the people who died that day.Now we "breathe them in". Connected with us for a moment, we keep their memory alive now.