by Matthew S. Farmer (art by Jenny Judlin) A spectacle of man’s engineering we pledge our faith A young couple drives across in their yellow car looking for lunch on the other side But there is a flaw in the design \u2028now we have fear \u2028the bridge fails and the road crumbles into the sea<\/p>\n \u2028a young couple fights to get the doors open in the blue water A Post-Modern Tragedy Instead, trust in God \u00a0A Modern Marvel by Matthew S. Farmer (art by Jenny Judlin) A spectacle of man’s engineering Concrete, Cables, towering high we pledge our faith we pledge our trust we bring our family we bring our future A young couple drives across in their yellow car looking for lunch on the other side A single mother…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[949,937,582,529,581],"tags":[1351,1350,967],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ozarkfinearts","category-ozarkwriters","category-sotoarchive","category-sotoart","category-sotofeature","tag-collage-judlin","tag-matt-farmer","tag-writers-artists-night","category-949","category-937","category-582","category-529","category-581","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nConcrete, Cables, towering high<\/p>\n
\nwe pledge our trust
\nwe bring our family
\nwe bring our future<\/p>\n
\nA single mother rushes home from school to pick her children up from the babysitter
\nA distracted truck driver on his phone who just received news that his father is passing away<\/p>\n
\na high grey wind breaks the cables
\nthey said it could never happen
\nthe cable flips and whips after the relief of pressure
\nand the bridge begins to turn
\nthe concrete cracks, more cables break<\/p>\n
\nwe grasp for assurance
\nwe want to protect our family
\nwe want to protect our future<\/p>\n
\na single mother unconscious from the impact
\na praying truck driver is swimming to sandy shore
\nthere is no difference between their tears and the salty water<\/p>\n
\nthe futilely of man’s creation
\nthere is no faith in man
\nthere is no trust in our efforts<\/p>\n
\nHe shall not break
\nHe shall not bend
\nThe cross will endure all winds
\nand ensure safe passage eternal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"