Written by Ken Carman
After the single seed lands…
Oh beautiful flower
Bursting forth from the ground
With so much sound
Many…
Many…
Many miles away
Only there is where
Even the deaf were left to hear
Distant vibration
Closer
Oh so
Very…
Very…
Very close
The giant flower gathered humanity
In its petals
Melting their essence
Into the boom
With an atom splitting bloom
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Proving even brutally ugly
Has its brief moments
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Ken Carman
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