Vanishing Points
Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials
978-1-68003-101-0 Paperback
8.5 x 11 x 0.3 in
160 pp. 60 b&w photos.
Pub Date: 09/30/2016
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A Plain, White Cross
It lists slightly
beside the highway.
Whoever placed it there
drove its upright
deep into the earth,
intimate with the tragedy
of wind and driving rain.
Knowing the certainty
of erasure, they left it
nameless, just a simple
wooden cross harboring,
for a while, the traces
of unbearable loss.
As if lit from within
with white light, it glows
beside the silent highway:
white light stark
as the grief of the bereaved,
white as the clouds above,
streaking, disintegrating.
Larry D. Thomas
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Published by Texas Review Press