Clemente's Gravesite
is as plain
as his unpretentiousness.
Weeks before he died,
he asked that it be covered
with a cairn of local rocks
and marked with nothing
but a cross of mesquite
with only his first name
carved across the transverse.
He felt Mother Desert
was sufficient to serve
as a monument.
Larry D. Thomas
Los Días de los Muertos
(Big Bend area, far West Texas)