No Sign by Peter Balakian

Author:Peter Balakian [Balakian, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE000000 Poetry / General
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

She: They said goodbye and the noren curtains opened

and the past was a burning city

seen in silence, just images on screens.

Lui: What did Hiroshima mean to you?

Elle: The end of the war, fear and terror that it could happen to us,

then indifference—astonishment that they dare do it—

then it became an unknown fear—

5.

She: We’re standing—

on an underground channel of molten rock

that fed volcanic eruptions 200 million years ago.

Earth = axis = spinning = two selves—swerve—possibility

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