A Nuclear Childhood
What if your parents
had never met
had never married
had never yelled
at each other
and instead had wed
someone they loved
and lived peacefully
all those years.
That would have been
their Eden but you
shaking there now
decades later
wouldn’t be with us
cursing the tremors
of a nuclear childhood
you still remember
long after they’re dead.
Donal Mahoney
