Lady Butcher
Alexandra Price
About the Author
Alexandra Price is a poet, farmer and mother. She has previously worked as a book critic, English teacher, ghostwriter and mentor for ex-offenders. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Quibble Lit, Double Dutch Magazine, Dodging the Rain, The Friday Poem, The Amphibian and Riverstone Literary Journal. She is working on her first chapbook, Woman at Noon.
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Lady Butcher
She’s in the line in her ironed skirt,
mouth already holding the words:
tenderloin tongue rump belly.
Sees her forearm before anything,
sinews that make her neck flush,
fingers smearing her aproned paunch.
At home she stares at the twine
pulled taut on the beef,
rubs the salt too slowly.
That night the sheet is damp
with dreams of being slung over
her sweating shoulder,
then lowered onto a wooden block.
Next day she is early, by the window.
Waits for the light to come.
She demands more meat,
forgets to say please.