The Figure 5 (The Great Figure)

  
This morning there was a light dusting of snow on the ground
As it was 15 years ago.
50 years ago there was a Special Report broadcast that would impact history 50 years in the future
My mother would have been 100 years old today.

It is remotely connected to the poem by William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure":

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.