Barbara Spring

At Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

Waves lap the sand the sand the sand
and while we keep silence,
the silence of Annabelle Lee
a plutonium fuel rod ticks away
stored on the dunes where we used to play.

We played elephants on a spider web
Sword of Damocles
Go Fish.

Peaceful atoms take millennia
to decay.

Barbara Spring lives in Michigan. Her poem Wolfman was published in Gumball Poetry's first issue.

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