The Black and Tans Deliver Her Cousin's Son by Catherine Byron
The reader's sympathy for the mother is heightened through shocking, visceral imagery.
- "her own son's brains scattered like mash about the flags."
- "gathered the soggy shards of her womb's child"
- "And didn't she then stifle the outbreath of her grieving"
- "only a whistle or whimper of her lamentations was heard"