He turned over on his side with his one year Red as a wound He turned over as if he could be sorry for this And out of his eyes two great tears rolled, like stones, and he died.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jon Silkin (b. 1930), British poet. Death of a Son (l. 4043). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.