I have tried to erase you
but you are already blank.
I hang your dress
in the hot south wind.
Only a rustle
of crows in the trees
as far off, our atlas
curls over the edge
like a little blue wave.
Credits
"Atlas" from Leaving Tulsa, by Jennifer Elise Foerster. © 2013 Jennifer Elise Foerster. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.