met my future in-laws
(rented room over county clerk)
in Fort Atkinson
(roadhouse corndog)
something made them skittish
(farm on auction)
they stood when I stood
(dark chapel novice priest)
looked when I wasn’t
(power line windbreak silo)
and followed me upstairs
(third shift rock river mill)
each morning everyone
dressed for early mass
left me locked out
town center had
a bank a bronze cannon
one grocery store
cheese form Oklahoma