Sudden uprise of dark brown mountains
From flattened Hiroshima
At the bottom of a crater-like basin,
Outrageous upheaval.
It rises up and plunges down,
Shaking back and
Casting upward
Clouds,
Clouds,
Clouds,
Scarlet, orange, violet,
Expanding in lurid eruption.
The air
Gushing forth through chasms
In the smoke-ridden earth,
Hurtling one upon the other,
Exploding, shooting
Boiling torrents into the stratosphere.
There come for the first time
Hissing whispers,
Then rumbling of the earth beneath,
Groaning waves, ear-splitting shock.