lines cut heavy on a button stretched brow thick rubber shoes and dragon canes fill out the closet floor gospel sounds and narratives (drowned) apparitions set sullenly amid voices from the past
finger pins and crosswords find the favor list point men and preachers tip up their tuscany caps twitching and sign gazing with spectacles held firm recurring evening news and beadledom views
clappers and caregivers raise a crooked foot grips and rockers settle in on the front porch gertrude grimaces at an untimely turn as the gooseberry pie (with a smidgen of cloves) chills by the night watch