Adam Means Red Earth

There is nothing to eat,                    seek it where you will,                                       but of the body of the Lord. —William Carlos Williams   Outside Sweetwater, bones roast into rosy clay. Plains sweep past  the freeway like unleavened bread. Butchers conjure dark eucharists, Herefords slaughtered for steak wafers.   The pickup’s tire ruptures, swerving head-on to the opposite […]