Juleigh Howard-Hobson
After the War
"War is not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things"
—Another Mother for Peace 1966

No
child
could grow
here. It's wild
and cold. Everyone
who might have cared is long gone now.
while those who are left are spiritually exhausted, done
trying to exist without an idea about how
to get things back to how they used
to be once. Before
hell was loosed
and war
blew
through.