No One’s Remembered Much Longer than a Rock

It’s Sweet to Be Remembered

by Charles Wright

No one’s remembered much longer than a rock
          is remembered beside the road
If he’s lucky or
Some tune or harsh word
          uttered in childhood or back in the day.

Still how nice to imagine some kid someday
          picking that rock up and holding it in his hand
Briefly before he chucks it
Deep in the woods in a sunny spot in the tall grass.

- Charles Wright from Sestets. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.