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Hiroshima August 6, 1945

By CAPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
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to fall like petals from

a flower,

this was our

destiny

earthen cloud,

pillar of fire - this is

how we died

the sun glared, bloomed it's brow

we shone as

memories

afire in the shadow

seeping shape of a tree

sweep of man

there, asleep

cloud to stone, bread to bone

time unfurled

down, summer

all but gone

we drank the moon as rain

came, black silk,

silent streams

____________________

she looked as if a ghost

along the Ota steps

Okaasan

bathing in stolen time

the edge-hills a blank stare

a moonlight now failing

her mind a shadow, silk

digging in

before the atoms split

before the suns heat hit

she was gone

________________

acrid coats of children

bundled books

ablaze in

choc'late and chewing gum.

desire nothing until

war is won

- ca

(Background photo by Beau Swierstra from Unsplash.)

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About the Creator

CA

Sound Engineer, Poet, sometimes-composer.

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" - Emily Dickinson.

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  • CA (Author)about a year ago

    Background photo by Beau Swierstra from Unsplash.

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