'Larry Farmer' by Tyler Macko at No Place, Columbus

“Those iron trees and I are the same” - Leonard Knight, creator of Salvation Mountain

heirlooms imbibed in oil

small cross of chicken bone

wedded to the work of vision

the ferric hand softens

to the skin of an orange

possessed for a time

with a sense of animism

radiant splashes of light

thrown down on orchards

and beneath this scarecrow

another scarecrow

smaller in stature but
no less real

in its lilting song

that catches and snags

on the breeze

— Willie Young