Butcher's Hook
A knowing look transmutes Sally's Saturday job into a frozen, swollen meat-fest.
Hacking bones, I glance askanceAt Graham in his bloody apronSawing through a clump of muscleTrimming fat and severing tendonsOh, those hands! now gloved and crimsonSkillful as a slaughtering surgeonOperations never ending Always reaping, never sewingGrisly gristle, loathsome lites areMinced for barbecue delights; IStuff obscenely swollen skinsHope Graham sees me tease the meatYes, meat is murder, this I knowYet swallow al...