Scissors and Knives for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales 19   Please visit the Magpie site to view the image prompt for which this was written and to see what others wrote.  This is a previously published poem  but it when I saw the prompt, it came into my mind and didn't leave.

Scissors and Knives

Young unblinking eyes
brand me a stranger
in that Frankfurt square
where shawled women
walk with unwrapped bread
and fabric bags of produce.
Outside a temporary rental
my landlord bends to clip the grass
with scissors used to trim his beard,
the same tool splits domestic hare
into Sunday night's entree.
Germans have shears
and a war bunker up the street;
the Swiss have army knives.

  Watercolor created on Bamboo Fun Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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