-the pumps, the bread, and all all and all.

Pianissimo:

there's an absence of traffic
this early Sunday morning
but U.S. 6 runs west to the river
and east to Buzzard’s Bay nonetheless.

across the street
the ballpark takes on its recurring
face of anticipation.

the ESSO station's

"CLOSED"––  and the stained-

glass windows beyond the left field fence

are hung matte-finished

too early for congregants or incandescence.

a catechism:

It's told by Priest at Saturday
morning catechism:— God said:

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy".

But the great bakeries street-side of the baselines,
Marzilli's off the third, Marcucci's off the first,

have fired their ovens notwithstanding scripture
offering the faithful, for a price, this day their daily bread.

Quequechan, the early years

("all all and all.."  is nabbed from: "The Poems of Dylan Thomas")