Pennies flattened on the coal train tracks
Cranberry bogs and fetish sanitariums
Rusted gas pumps and Strawberry Crush
Club feet and pig iron nurseries
Flavor factories and the smell of defeat
Sackcloth and soot
Slurry and suet
Whelps and petticoats and hoops
Turnip greens and creosote
Outlandish hats and tragic shoes
Fringes and blue smoke
Black and combustible and elusive as coal
Where canaries sit on the hot tin plate
Ruddy limbs and blotchy faces
Bloody taverns from earlier centuries
Wildflower lunacies
Childhood tragedies
Emaciated alpha dogs
Never speaking to strangers at all
