Fatality

Scattered traffic cones
glass fragments
sprinkled like deadly
confetti

the young girl supine
on the sidewalk
her face gashed
mutilated by gravel.

Her head has impacted
the truck’s windshield

which is a shattered
spider’s web of hair clots
and gore.

I know she is dead or
hugely brain-damaged.
She does not sit up

blood wells from her ears.
I can’t help thinking
her fanned-out nose

makes her look
like a mole. She’s

been pulverized
is a lifeless
floppy doll.