Aftermath

Abstract

Aftermath Marcia L. Hurlow (bio) for my brother You witness an explosion you calculate in numbers so small their heat shatters into white flame. Subatomic heartbreak rolls into the clouds. A star the reaction lit like a candle snaps in blue above the microscopic field of your narrowing choices. Here, floating above the blast a black thread frays, widens in the nuclear wind like the shadow of a man risen from the fracture. [End Page 71] Marcia L. Hurlow Marcia L. Hurlow, professor of creative writing at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, is the author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent chapbook, Green Man in Suburbia, won the Backwards City Review Press contest, and her full-length collection, Anomie, won the Edges Prize at WordTech. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Poetry Wales, The Iconoclast, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Malahat Review. Copyright © 2015 Berea College