"The Names"

 In the poem "The Names" I feel that Billy Collins is trying to explain what a tragedy this event was. Even if you read a few sentences you could still be able to feel how depressing it was. I want to point out this sentence, "I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark." This person had lost many to 9/11 and I just wanted to point that out because he really knows what it feels like to have lost friends and maybe even family he expresses that so well in this poem.