PoMo2013 - Poem 25 - "Accident"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accident

The son and father

whose parents were killed

and wife and baby injured

by a drunk driver

across from the school yard

heard about the accident

on the news.

He had a hunch it was his family
and raced over to Harborview 
Hospital to find his life

was over

as he had known it.
Flowers line the curbside

along NE 75th

where the family's bodies

laid strewn across the street,

the drunk driver

leaning on a police car

and a first responder

so shaken he can't work

the district

for the next two weeks. 
When he returns,
the first call

he gets 

is from a
woman
poet

whose house

got egged. 
What a relief ,

his body

said.
 

-Esther Altshul Helfgott

4/25/13