Hiroshima
& Nagasaki
by
Hiromi Yoshida
The
flash
The
crash
The
ash.
Decimation
was instantaneous—skeletons etched upon asphalt,
shadows
sick with radiation
vomited
skyward curses—
The
True Man hanging from the over-blossoming
tree
of public panic unlynched.
Bio:
Hiromi Yoshida
teaches American Literature for the award-winning VITAL program at
the Monroe County Public Library. Her poems have been published in
literary magazines and journals that include Indiana Voice Journal,
The Asian American Literary Review, Evergreen Review, and The Rain,
Party, & Disaster Society.