Flightless Lieutenants

Show me the deciphered marsh layer
the grocery barbed wire tenses
alacrity trembling this close to the remote action

Minnesota laymen and priests demur
over infatuated milk and graceless presence
lined with warm fabric and telling lies

For today is the is a declared day
diminish the saints to be overt wind
in the ashes of annotation and incantations

soon prison comes for your lax security
for your flightless lieutenants