mushroom cloud
before Los Alamos
just a shape
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Scott Wiggerman
Scott Wiggerman is the author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the editor of several volumes, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga, and Wingbeats II. He is an editor for Dos Gatos Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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An historical, and haiku-of-place poem… Quite moving.
Well done, Scott!
(Jan in Fort Worth)
A great one indeed!
Chilling image. One that needs remembering. Thank you.
Well put, Scott.
Delighted to see you writing haiku, Scott, and this one's certainly poignant.
Wonderfully put. the sadness so well conveyed–before Los Alamos the mushroom cloud was just a shape. After……the world changed.
Ouch!
mushroom
before Los Alamos
just a vegetable
Hiroshima
the tree’s shadow
in the old wall