White shadow dancers

When you first learned of World War II

and the cost of winning the war

you would lie on the living room floor

watch dust motes above your head

shimmer in the sunlight

and imagine white shadow dancers

the same age as yourself

traced upon the ground

no longer able to dance.

8-6-22

August 6th is the 77th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.