misericord fables

hurricanes in the south
white shirt lawns
broker’s pièce de résistance
banker’s broken furnace

Geelong soap refinery
misericord stationary
wounded chorus gloves
like a staple peddler’s
splintered archway
and a valet’s persisting residence

sober wincing patients
elected stone bible salesman
humiliation and diet of regret
confusion in the meandering chord