River of Fire

1994

23" x 31"

Hiroshima Series

People who were badly burned tried to get to water. In rivers many drowned as weak and injured people were pushed into deep water. Burning debris on the rivers added to their misery.

Clawing at the air

'I'm hot I'm hot'

a girl says curselike

in a shadeless city                       

            Fukagawa Munetoshi

Out of the infernal fire

corpses in the summer river

Haiku               Ichiki Ryujoshi

Poetry from The Atomic Bomb Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll