A Poem For Friday

roadside

“Roadside Grave: Winter, Mass” by Franz Wright:

In the white is a name.
In the three worlds
it stands.  Wind
sounds, a world of one
color.
Name spoken,
once,
across a darkening field;
name being stitched,
very small, in white thread
in white cloth.

(From F/poems © 2013 by Franz Wright. Reprinted by kind permission of Alfred A. Knopf. Photo by Flickr user halfrain)