In the Shadows of a Little Boy
In the Shadows of a Little Boy:
Meandering through the dew-covered grasses at dawn, the slow bake of sweet magnolia surrounds me.
A bewitching brew of memory covers me like a million burning moons. I think of our first kiss over a quarter century ago and my breath becomes hitched to my pause on this thought. I rejoice in knowing that our kisses are just souvenirs of the love we share daily. We are getting older. Our grandson is growing. We are focused on his future. But, how could we have known that while we are living and loving, there’s a whole world dreaming of blinded hydrangeas and a Nuclear Winter of doom?
A bewitching brew of memory covers me like a million burning moons. I think of our first kiss over a quarter century ago and my breath becomes hitched to my pause on this thought. I rejoice in knowing that our kisses are just souvenirs of the love we share daily. We are getting older. Our grandson is growing. We are focused on his future. But, how could we have known that while we are living and loving, there’s a whole world dreaming of blinded hydrangeas and a Nuclear Winter of doom?
©️Winter Dawn Burns
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Quotation marks should have been around Little Boy in the title. . .Via Wikipedia–“Little Boy” was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity nuclear test. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ) and had an explosion radius of approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) which caused widespread death across the city. It was a gun-type fission weapon which used uranium that had been enriched in the isotope uranium-235 to power its explosive reaction.
And quotation marks should have been around what I posted from Wikipedia, but I accidentally posted it without putting them in. I wish I could edit the comment, but I can not figure out how to do that or if it’s possible.
With or without the quotation marks, your words are keepers.