first hit - in the stomach. and  then in 
 the    neck.        lights     strobing 
        in    angel    patterns       
                                  
                              
                            
 body broken, bleeding, kicked again  and 
 again  (now  down   on   the  concrete), 
          ribs     cracked.           
                                   
                                 
                               
 consciousness    rerouted    into    the 
 escaping blood. mixed  with the glow  of 
 the  streetlights and carried away  into 
 the    hands    of    the    angel.     
                               
                                   
                                     
 she   lifts  her  cupped  hands  to  her 
 muzzle                and     drinks.