4:00 a.m. Sampler for Cromwell at the Beach

Hickory tree bonds
waste basket weddings
Marley ink caskets
morning trophy endowments
Here, for the bread of our neighbors
for the forgetting post and scheduled incisors
like grafted jewelry for words replacing joy-mending
like rattled caverns under the balloon broom state
She has no party for candidacy
no church to magnify Herself
She is quiet when you are awake
and strong when you are able