War With The World, Photo
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But it isn’t nothing,
it’s lead-colored dust
like the fine ash from Mt. St. Helens
or the silky filings from carving sandstone.
It’s Manhattan, deconstructed into oddlots of
rubble;
L. A. collapsed like a circus tent;
it’s wildcat winds howling like hoodlums over
leveled farms,
stock-piling sand in corners of movie-set houses,
crashing civic bronze
with a leftover breath.
It’s a dog, limping on 3 legs,
gnawing on the 4th;
a man with glow-worm eyes crouching
under the front seat of what was
the family van, gorging on a smoking
strip of bark.
And more.
It’s tabula rasa; it’s
Paradise.
Nuclear Idyll by Angela C. Mankiewicz
Published in many journals, including HA Review, Slipstream, Tsunami/The Temple, Chiron, Lynx Eye, Pemmican, Montserrat. Have two chapbooks out–Cancer Poems and Wired. Have won a couple of first prizes, a Pushcart nomination, helped edit two small magazines. Poets Against the War
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Plutonium in the environment
Atomic Cafe – Documentary film about nuclear civil defense films.
Castle Bravo – largest nuclear fallout accident by United States
Center insert from Survival Under Atomic Attack; booklet released in the 50’s:
Scary stuff….I’ll have to rent Atomic Cafe again…loved the opening scene with the family all lined up at their picture window watching the blast.
I think I’m remembering that correctly…..
Keep up the good work. This is awesome. And aren’t we a foolish race?
I did a double take at that picture but the dog was really scary. Nice job!
Color me crazy….I see two witches dancing! This is an amazing apocalyptic image.
I thought my post was dark, but you nailed that visually, heart pounding, heart -wrenching future on the head!! It is frightening, sad and all too potentially possible these days. great post.
very intense poetry.. wow… what an ample imaginative eye… god willing i will never find out ow accurate it is……
Eerie…
the photo illustrates the poetry rather well though…