Uranium 235
Causes in this city, picked out,
An apparition of the man-made sun
500 metres high above the sky.
8.15 a.m.
(Punctually)
The citizens summoned
Into the streets in the centre of town.
Hiroshima now submerged
In black tangled smoke
Like coarse public hair
Under the sun with dust in its eyes
Throbbing and contracting,
The restless tongues of flame
Lick the flayed skin
Of men.
A black shower,
Fluttering in the whirlwind,
Chokes the mouths crying for loved ones.