Plume by Kathleen Flenniken

Author:Kathleen Flenniken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2013-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

SIREN RECOGNITION

—Hanford, 1983

The orientation video begins with fire

and hurricane—familiar, comfortable disaster.

Then, with a queer segue, the AWOOGA

AWOOGA of commencing reactor meltdown.

I sit in my summer suit from Nordstrom,

the only new hire today, not dressed

for fear in the shape of a mushroom cloud

or the end of the human race.

The clerk sorts through papers as though

this is any work day. I believe in her

eye shadow, the orange on her desk,

but the siren sounds deep in my lizard brain,

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