"Domestic Life Isn't for Me" - 2/8/2018

"Domestic Life Isn't for Me"

She stands at the stove
preparing Cornish game hens
for the oven.
Small fingers pull at pale,
pockmarked, pimpled skin
that has little hen-bumps
from where the feathers were.
The oven by her legs grumbles,
her wife steps in the
room and wraps her arms
around her spouse, still
pulling the skin,
rubbing it with thyme, marjoram, sage, basil, oregano.
They stand like that,
silently, broken only when
the green like of the
oven blinked on,
preheated.