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At the Butcher Shop, Queens, NY, 1960

Margaret D. Stetz

Life wasn’t the same there
he said
so here he was
working again
having carried the profits
from carcasses
hacked, slashed, streaming
with blood
across the ocean
and back
disappointed.
Life wasn’t the same there
he said
for they
had also returned—
“not so many but too many”
he preferred
to remember the past
he liked to be called “Herr S.”
have customers egg
him on
make jokes
black combs
held straight
above their lips
wearing his red-smeared
apron
friendly indulgent
to light-haired children
he smiled
he ran
a stained hand
over their heads
offered free
a transparent wafer of ham
a slice of bologna

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