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NOW ACCEPTING COVER ART (SHŌ NO. 4)
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Shō Poetry Journal

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Hiroshima

by Lyn Lifshin

patterns of kimonos
burned on some women

on the 12th day
wounds began to

open wider. Women
saw their hair fall

out. Someone with
out eyes calling for

a sister. Purple
sores. Some couldn’t

be touched, their skin
fell off in glove-like

pieces. By the 20th day,
vegetation began to grow

wildly, lush green weeds,
huge wild flowers. As

people died, the cities
were blanketed with

flowers

This poem appeared in Shō Number 2 (2003)

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