Study in Still Life: Children with Dog

The next car swerved away
too late
a still bundle of black fur
blood from the crushed head
slowly staining the asphalt
and on the pavement the children
with a sudden sickening appreciation
of death
prancing and whimpering with joy a moment ago
being taken on that adventure
across the road to the grocer's
now crushed pushed over the brink of eternity
and on the pavement the children
tears smarting [unclear: bencai] the eyelids
stand incredulous before the finite world.

Alec Bryan.