Over Ozark

Faith .........the virus that topples ............hourly wages

They’ve bandaged the road with black toothpaste

We’ve come back dreary doom impending

My skull bounces against the window .........overtime Why couldn’t his skin to the glass be given? They’ve reduced wing-walking, strut-hammocking, and free-loving to bags of salted peanuts and vomit You could scoop the gray from the sky with a fish net

I ’ l l p r a y f o r y o u

My bare feet lose heat from the passing wet wind before gaining it back through the light of Sol ascending above yonder steeple My book’s pages require a defense from ranks of lonely morning spiders though they decrease from all-nighter sleepiness

My thumb rests unintentionally on the transmit button Our jokes are heard but not listened to

Methods methods methods glued together;

Communal confrontation

I break too many things that aren’t mine I’m too often forgiven

The clock on the ashen kitchen wall whistles on the third bird waves of sound carrying the soap smell It floats, Purpose-driven