A Room of My Own: Skin against Skin Tanka

Yellowing Memories, VIII

written in response to The Telegraph, August 15: Putin prepares nuclear missile tests in veiled threat to West

we ducked and covered

like Bert the Turtle at school

as sirens howled ...

decades later, I still feel the heat

of our skin against skin

FYI: "Duck and Cover" staring Bert the Turtle is a 1951 "Civil Defense film"/propaganda, as the cornerstone of the government's "duck and cover" public awareness campaign.

And January 28, 2025 Doomsday Clock Announcement: 89 seconds to midnight