Rumble of freight trains at dusk
Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard
Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time
Hailstorm on roof of jalopy
Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire
Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953
Time
One-eared mule eating oats out of rusted Radio Flyer wagon
Footsteps, size ten wingtips, left heel worn down
Fly ricocheting against Greyhound bus window in August
Third-to-last unfiltered Chesterfield being drawn from pack
Musical saw practicing scales in abandoned Viennese opera house
Resigned exhalation of dishwater blonde sipping rotgut from chipped dimestore mug while hounds from the farm over the hill next grieve passing hours that slip away like clouds skulking over the rotted face of the moon
Carny coughing into red bandana
