The runway is dark \u2014 no flights in or out today
\nin the distance crackling lightning races across the sky<\/p>\n
and pierces the curtain of tumbling raindrops
\ntossed by the unrelenting howling wind<\/p>\n
the strobe blinds me and etches the outline of my body
\nagainst my bedroom wall for a fleeting second<\/p>\n
then the rumbling boom rattles my window
\nscattering echoes like scudding waves around me<\/p>\n
The room is dark \u2014 sleep eludes me tonight
\na swirling storm in the deepest recesses of my mind<\/p>\n
tossing spinning monochromatic images
\nof Hiroshima Shadows etched on city walls and sidewalks<\/p>\n
by that deadly blinding scorching atomic blast
\npulsing a million red-hot typhoons for an eternal second<\/p>\n
I yearn for the gentle embrace of warm onsen<\/em> waters <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Inspired by a friend’s visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and her being stranded at Kansai International Airport when typhoon Hagibis struck Japan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The runway is dark \u2014 no flights in or out today in the distance crackling lightning races across the sky and pierces the curtain of tumbling raindrops tossed by the unrelenting howling wind the strobe blinds me and etches the outline of my body against my bedroom wall for a fleeting second then the rumbling boom rattles my window scattering echoes like scudding waves around me The room is dark \u2014 sleep eludes me tonight a swirling storm in the deepest recesses of my mind tossing spinning monochromatic images of Hiroshima Shadows etched on city walls and sidewalks by that deadly blinding scorching atomic blast pulsing a million red-hot typhoons for an eternal second I yearn for the gentle embrace of warm onsen waters to soothe my raging emotional turmoil Inspired by a friend’s visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and her being stranded at Kansai International Airport when typhoon Hagibis struck Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,84,86,83],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poems","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-hiroshima","tag-hiroshima-shadows","tag-kansai-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto soothe my raging emotional turmoil<\/p>\n