Haitian Boy With One Shoe

Haiti Disaster:  News Story: A young visiting female reporter finds a child's bones; and,  one shoe along the highway.  She was deeply disturbed by it.  This poem is her experience.
                           ~~~~~~
      Haitian Boy With One Shoe
                         *
      boy with one small shoe
      ribs in pieces
      pelvis, too,
      no feet at all
      spinal column--size small,
      wrist, and forearm
      bleaching in the Haitian heat
      marrow warm and sweet
                   *
     No mother's sleepless moans
     bring Haiti's lost sons home
     gasping
     gasping
     still
     no release for her flesh or bone
     *
     Unknown
     woman by Lafiteau
     covers a small boy's bones
     with prayers and gray beached stones
     and with the one small
     deflated shoe, she marks this final peace.
     She sighs, "No, not better,-- yet complete."