Monthly Archives: August 2010

Poem for the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

NAGASAKI 1945 (After an eyewitness account by Dr Tatsuichiro Akizuki) At 10.30 the siren sounded, at 11 o’clock the all-clear. Sticking a needle into a patient, I heard a drone as the plane, lost in the cloud, dropped her baby.   … Continue reading

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