Jersey JoAnne McFarland He tells me he’s a parolee looking for a good woman but he’s been bad so bad trapped in a sheet of ice wrapping the meat in paper shudders I shouldn’t be eating red meat with my hypertension and high cholesterol the steaming calf He says he’s been out six months but still it’s hard you know how it is the wrong people their bright ideas attempts to rise his bloody apron a recipe buckles and gives me an extra pound Copyright © 2024 by JoAnne McFarland. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 6, 2024, by the Academy [...]