The Long Nights

1995

30" x 29"

Hiroshima Series

For survivors the nights were long and suffering continued. 

All night through groaning was heard

Near dawn the voice became quiet    perhaps he died

                                    Hasegawa Seisaku

That army doctor, too, probably died before long

The naked group without skin

Crying in the dark shelter

Probably all died

Cursing mankind's brutality called war...

                                                Yamamoto Yasuo

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

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll