Friday, October 7, 2005

Photo at the Butcher's

at the butcher's in the cooler's cold air
there is a side of beef hanging there

cold wet blood on a slippery floor,
rusted steel rods along a wall by the door
a cold firm greasy weight hanging from a meat hook
a red side of beef approached with a careful look

a butcher surveying a landscape of muscle and creamy white fat,
fascia and the caput of a femur - a songbird to a cat