The truck bed jostles in its haze

accompanied by bones

a tunnel parts the sky

birds following the seams

that held its passage to the stars

and darkest blue thrall.

Boulders touching the horizon

where man was made to eat meat

and dream of God

leaping to swim

what puked him out

bumping the molecules

with his belly.

Taping the crown of thorns

cracked with enamel

to his higher head

strained and reaching

above the crib

below the second sill.