August 15, 1945

Worse than any wizard
from Oz throwing back the curtain
on his pyrotechnics was the day
God died

and became human:
after his dynasty above
the sun, Hirohito,
divine wind, kamikaze,
no more.

The broadcast
went out with the static
like any other voice,
went out from the lungs.

And the believer
cut back the branches
of his garden
until white river stones
glowed with the same light
as the exclusive moon.