Poetry:
Siegel, Joan I
Joan I. Siegel Hiroshima 1991 The woman says: Everyone ran to the river and jumped in. There I found my father, a miracle. We floated downstream with all the burning dead. The man says: I...
...The man says: I was playing soldier outside when a great flash shook the sky and the house dropped on my sister...
...She screamed, "Help me...
...Then my older sister came from school holding half her face melted in her hands, but together we couldn't pull our sister out...
...Then the fires came and the wind and neighbors took us away...
...but my five-year-old's arms couldn't reach, couldn't pull her out...
...Help...
...The blind woman says: In this bed I sleep and wake everyday darkness begins the wind catches fire...
...The old man says: I was a miracle...
...I did not burn...
Vol. 122 • August 1995 • No. 14
