POINT-BLANK

by Susan L. Pollet


Shot her point-blank in the face
While she pushed the stroller
With their infant child
He wanted her to know her place
She died and he disappeared
With plenty of traces which led
To his capture—not much of a chase
He became a court case and she
Became candles and flowers on the
Street where she was gunned down
The child to grow in another’s embrace
No point to the blankness
Of the point-blank shot in the face


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Susan L. Pollet is an author, artist, advocate for women’s and children’s rights, rewired lawyer, proud mother and grandmother, and world traveler.  She is a past president of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and past Vice President of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.  She is currently the co-chair of the Domestic Violence Committee for Wbasny.