Ozark Desert

Ozark

wads of
unavoidable grace
the plain scarcity’s
omnipotence
that the wind turns
that the trees cringe &
crawl at the clay
that skirts away
in schools like
ghost trails
old wounds
the old sky opens &
the pinks cry &
the violets lurch &
sob
concert for
who illumes
wheat in the dessert of
being
a gradient thread
that every evidence
the impossibility of
boundary

Desert

Mason Soto

Mason Soto was born in Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Narrative Imagination, at the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival 2023, and elsewhere.