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.

 

 

 

 

 

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Larry D. Thomas
 

Los Días de los Muertos
 

(Big Bend area, far West Texas) 

 

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