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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

poetry by Ross Vassilev


rosaries 
by Ross Vassilev

afterschool 
we watched the 
Irish girls 
walking 
home in pairs 
from 
St. Mary’s. 
they were all 
blondes 
or redheads 
thin and pretty 
stone-faced 
mean-looking 
not saying a word 
not even to 
each other. 
pale white legs 
coming out of 
green plaid 
skirts 
they drove us nuts 
but we didn’t 
have the balls 
to go over 
and talk to them 
so they remained 
a green-clad 
mystery 
in the grey streets 
of Manhattan.

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