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


Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems (ed. University of Illinois Press, 1970) - ISBN: 9780252011931

Michael S. Harper Quotes

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

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

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

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