Alicia Cole
After Hiroshima
I hope to see
Alicia Cole is a writer and visual artist living in Huntsville, AL. Her poetry has appeared in Paper Nautilus and Thick With Conviction, and is forthcoming in The Clockwise Cat and Love & Ensuing Madness. You can find more about her on Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6470571.Alicia_Cole, at her publishing press, Priestess & Hierophant, www.priestessandhierophant.com, and at www.facebook.com/Aliciacolewriter.
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I hope to see
fresh
sakura free of cesium
a child’s
hands
placing dolls
in the pinked boughs
of festival bowers
free of nuclear showers
china faces
uncracked
thirsty trunks drinking
clean water
(so many generations
unharried growth
since Hiroshima,
yet so much wasted
in the earth’s protestant
heave as though
spirits their mouths sprung
from Torii gates
snapped a spume
of rotten ground).
Alicia Cole is a writer and visual artist living in Huntsville, AL. Her poetry has appeared in Paper Nautilus and Thick With Conviction, and is forthcoming in The Clockwise Cat and Love & Ensuing Madness. You can find more about her on Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6470571.Alicia_Cole, at her publishing press, Priestess & Hierophant, www.priestessandhierophant.com, and at www.facebook.com/Aliciacolewriter.