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Divorce: From impact to healing
A chapter in the book CSP: A Collection of Poems
Nuclear Family and the Divorce
by Sixteezkid
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Ground Zero - shock, carnage, silence Dreams lying flat, their branches brittle Broken in scorched scapes Ground Zero plus five - no dream alive Hopes spiraled from their once sure destiny Buried in a gray arena Ground Zero plus ten - resurrection Self-titled Survivors growing sprigs Breathing the dirty air The Outpost - dare they claim victory Is the horizon safe to glance at with all its brightness and color And Beyond - Its name is Future Not looking back, We call it Fragile |
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In above-ground nuclear testing, measurements of devastation are taken at many points: Ground zero is point of impact, GZ plus 5 miles, GZ plus 10 miles, the "outpost", etc. My poem is melding the language of a nuclear blast with the initial trauma of family members in divorce and later in time, how they are healing. (The distance of miles in the blast is the distance of time after the divorce).
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