Annihilation Haiku

The mushroom cloud grows
Across the blind horizon
A dead gray snow falls

“… for the eyes of the children
of nagasaki,
for the eyes of the children
of middle passage,
for cherokee eyes, ethiopian eyes,
russian eyes, american eyes,
for all that remains of the children,
their eyes,
staring at us, amazed to see
the extraordinary evil in
ordinary men.”
— Lucille Clifton / “sorrow song”