Dead: 247,000
Missing: 14,000
Injured: 38,000
In the A-bomb museum
Baked stones,
Melted slates,
And deformed glass bottles are shown
And pamphlets of city planning
For tourist hotels
    gathering
Dust.

Even today
In 1951
Clouds are towering and burning,
And two white flying spots
Brushing past them
As they drift.
Look, there are the white spots.
From across the world the parachutes remotely
Controlled are come to take the radiation count:
The parachutes
Of that morning,
Stamped on the retinae
Of Hiroshima Tribe
Now gently floating
Behind the clouds again.'

--Sankichi Toge, Hiroshima Poems