‘Where For Art Thou, Black & Decker’

07/13

hum of mower across the street

sounds like hot summer Saturdays

preparing my father’s lawn for Sunday

whine of weed eater trims his fence

no getting down on knees

cutting by hand

childhood Sunday memories

may have been fonder

if my hands did not have blisters

…my sunburned neck reeking of Noxema