Flag
by Katie Ford
Flag
Some come to this ruin and raise a flag.
Some take a prophet too soon by the hand.
The dead are still lost and the lost nearly dead:
Here a woman spills onto her porch to show
she has opened her wrists. What did she use?
She used the wind.
Katie Ford is the author of If You Have to Go (Graywolf Press, 2018); Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014); Colosseum (Graywolf, 2008); and Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside