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.