Broken Glass Angels

Crunched windshield from last February.

Glass was embedded in his hand from when the truck flipped.

They hit black ice on the road.

 

A woman comes to our school a year later 

And I sit with him in the bleachers

As she tells us that she could bend down and pick up glass

From the crash site 

Where they cut her son out of the molten car.

 

Broken glass angels pile up fast 

On mantle pieces

And roadsides

And the tops of Christmas trees.

 

Some of ‘em don’t break all the way

But a chip stays missing.

wph

VT

16 years old

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