• A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

    Michael S. Harper: A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family--
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy
    Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press