WORST NUCLEAR DISASTER IN HISTORY, Chernobyl Year BY Jehanne Dubrow ,with film footage then and now

FOOTAGE FROM 1988 and 2021
1. Intro
2. Poem, Chernobyl Year BY Jehanne Dubrow
3. Footage 1988-2021 with Rachmaninov All Night Vigil, Op II, Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Chernobyl Year
BY JEHANNE DUBROW
We dreamed of glowing children,
their throats alive and cancerous,
their eyes like lightning in the dark.
We were uneasy in our skins,
sixth grade, a year for blowing up,
for learning that nothing contains
that heat which comes from growing,
the way our parents seemed at once
both tall as cooling towers and crushed
beneath the pressure of small things-
family dinners, the evening news,
the dead voice of the dial tone.
Even the ground was ticking.
The parts that grew grew poison.
Whatever we ate became a stone.
Whatever we said was love became
plutonium, became a spark
of panic in the buried world.
Poem copyright ©2010 by Jehanne Dubrow, whose most recent book of poems is Stateside, Northwestern Univ. Press, 2010.
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[@meltonjohn.]

wow those poeple went through so much, so sad. great poem

[@hippyshake244]

powerful

[@zenpuppy123]

powerful and moving poem

[@one-pt2io]

yes I agree so powerful

[@truthbetold41]

This happened when I was a child i was not even near there but i was scared

[@zenpuppy123]

yes i remember itwas world news