The trees grunt around 2am my bones shatter yours among the lawns and miles of river half-shot from the lung jesus knocks over his beer it begins to hail better than our words or guttural dreams among the early light of cars arguing and the stare of dogs in haphazard light
Dismayed enough to bark with laughter that rolling hymn of bone upon night where we rattle space together gripping it with knuckle, palm, fire, and distress opening the lightening to our day that remind us of seasons between better made for the shadow tax, or whatever days we owe.