Nuclear Testing Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands
Nuclear tests in the Soviet`s Kazakhstan
A mushroom of clouds
from the ground and the ocean
leaves a never ending legacy
of disfigured faces,
of mothers with jellyfish babies
of graves from cancerous tumors
in the human bodies,
and the continuing horror
of the rays of atomic tests.


Nuclear test in its horror
and legacy will forever dwell
in the memory of our fragile humanity.