Sunrise on the 6th <br />of August <br /> <br />immaculately <br />cloudless. <br /> <br />Sunlight glinting on <br />the Industrial Promotion Hall <br /> <br />Eatherly's plane <br />STRAIGHT FLUSH <br /> <br />reports on <br />visibility <br /> <br />does a <br />simulated run. <br /> <br />The radio cackles: <br />'Cloud Cover - less than 3/10tths <br />at all altitudes. <br /> <br />Advise: Bomb primary>' <br /> <br />'Over.' <br /> <br />Less than an hour <br />...later <br /> <br />...Hiroshima <br /> <br />...flashes into History. <br /> <br />The Industrial Promotion Hall <br />no longer <br /> <br />itself <br />transformed <br /> <br />into the A-Bomb <br />Dome <br /> <br />the symbol <br />of its wreckage <br /> <br />obscured now <br />by the snow.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deadly-forecast/
