Literary Orphans

Free Haircut by Larry Narron

Once again in front of my fracturing

toothpaste-spattered mirror,

my lashes alarmed by the shadows

that seem to have nested

 

all winter under my eyes. My skull:

haloed by the flickering of

a half-dead bulb that trapped the radio-

active tagmata of honey-

 

dew moths that flew somehow inside

its glass dome without cracking a sliver.

Hacking at fists of my hair with a rusty

left-handed pair of scissors

 

so I can buzz my head more easily,

I have to stop myself halfway

when I realize I’ve just accidentally

given myself a pretty good haircut.

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Larry Narron’s poems have appeared in Phoebe, Eleven Eleven, Permafrost, Whiskey Island, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Boiler, and other journals. His work has been nominated for the Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Larry lives in California.

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–Background Photography by Ed Wojtaszek

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