On the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14,2012
The entire nation watches
as you bury your child,
place with her a branch
of snowy soft petals that will
flower season after season,
pack with her crayons
and oversized paper so she
can draw you into eternity.
You lay your newly-amputated
arms around her in the coffin
and bury this beautiful child,
then ask our great nation,
you ask us
Why are there so many bullets
in my daughter’s tiny
six-year-old body?