---
title: AMBER alert
genre: prose

id: amber-alert
toc: "AMBER alert"

epigraph:
    content: Apparently it does nothing.
    link: 'http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/20/abducted/?page=full'

ekphrastic:
    image: amber.jpg
    title: Amber Hagerman
    link: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBER_alert'

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    class: 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
...

[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][].

[Lost things]: lappel-du-vide
[staying lost]: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176996
[try another door]: statements-frag.html