Ozark Love Poems & a Song of Divinity is a love letter to the author's beloved Ozark Mountains. The 20 sonnets within are an homage and nod to the great poet, Pablo Neruda.
i do not hold your river or your creek or the white crests
only the length of the rocky bed, the bend, confluence
persimmons bruised on the forest floor
the shoal and chute which cannot be resisted
from the north fork of the whites of your eyes
to the broad ridge in the south, the post oak to the pines
you are the red clay of deep missouri, pressing my thumbs
into the heft of your curves, i hold spring itself
you are all potential and i love your chance as a dream i hid
from my lonesome self, i shaped mountains into your likeness
before the portent of knowing what you are like
and then, when you are there with me
you are the light i allow to leave me exposed
i shudder in ecstasy and surrender to your dominion
