---
title: AMBER alert
genre: prose

epigraph:
    content: Apparently it does nothing.
    link: TODO

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    css: stark
    order: 6
    next:
    - title: Exasperated
      link: exasperated
    - title: The Death Zone
      link: death-zone
    prev:
    - title: Last bastion
      link: last-bastion
    - title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
      link: poetry-time
...

![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Amber_Hagerman.jpg]

Lost things have a way of staying lost.
They have to want to be found---is that why we tack up signs, hang socks from hooks in the park, have a box for what's been lost but now is found?
Maybe the lost *want* to be found but we're looking in the wrong places.
Maybe we speak the wrong language, the language of the found, to call to them.
Maybe we should try another door.