A young man – a cowboy, if the lariat looped on the bottom of this cross is a clue – died along the highway, just south of town, where the road crests a slight rise and then curves to the left.

From the back, it looks like someone left a heart on the cross, but from the front, you can tell it’s a pair of angel wings. I liked that ambiguity.

near Clarendon, Texas
photographed 11.21.2021