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John Parras: New Milford

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

When I go to borrow the electric hand-
saw, my uncertain neighbor alludes to

Hamlet’s friend Horatio
—something about sparrows

falling and his wife steps out
as the metal screen door flashes

white and it’s spring, I’ve just got my hair
cut by a fleet-fingered barber smelling of lavender

and everyone in Jersey is busy
cutting 2X4s in their garage,

a car’s spun out in the intersection
leaking radiator oil as green as hair gel

and drawing sirens as my profound wife
swoons beside me in a perfume of sawdust.

Filed Under: Contributors 75, Issue 75, Poetry, Poetry 75 Tagged With: Contributors 75, John Parras, Poetry, Poetry 75

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