JOSEPH MCHUGH

I HEART HIROSHIMA

Your eyes were rubber nipples that
dripped the milk of unhappiness

and I sucked it from the bottom
of the bottle of your hollows

where your meadows of marrow were
as barren as a scarecrow’s heart.

My eyes were the caps of mushroom
clouds rising out of the country

being vaporized inside me,
every flash of your shape toasted

onto the walls of my mind’s room
where I hid your milk and marrow.

When an atomic bomb finds its way between two people
they together
are history.