I memorize leukocytes, colorless nucleate cells, Strontium 90 (invisible flecks lodged even now in my thyroid), Calcium 89, half-life, the cloud which passed like a congested river over California: Those minuscule fish swam whole into our naked bones, and the eyes of the fish were death—and for forty years now, we have seeded that desert which stretches far far into the uncertain future, our bodies the reactors.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt | Question Contents | Mudlark No. 46 (2012)