Hiroshima

I reach back into the war of minds and of children

the mushroom dialectic
scattered shards
of bodies across newsreels
to grow up in the bedroom
between the cold of pain
and death of mother
Hiroshima

books showed the aftermath
closed room
on the film
the other side
black skull faces stare
burned bone center to the camera
fire torched
in nomine patris
in nomine patris
Hiroshima

1979
 a reflection on Crying Ashes