Clemente's Gravesite
Larry D. Thomas
Los Días de los Muertos
(Big Bend area, far West Texas)
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.