The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner

The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript

by Hildegarde Flanner

(originally published in a review of the book The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer in The New Republic, 1980; republished in 100 Great Poems by Women, edited by Carolyn Kizer, The Ecco P, 1995)

To forget him! To forget all of him!

To forget the beautiful skull where genius shuddered!

Suffer him to sink into the white sand

Where his mind pierced the stones and the stones

Marvelled. Consider the stones, they fell in two

And...