Engagement Chicken by Denise Jarrott

Instruct the oven 
not to misfire, 
and the man is yours. 
This chicken is a 
codex. I spun the 
solution into 
the muscle fiber.

No remedy for 
a snotty nose or 
the common croup. More
will be asked of this 
bird than to soothe a 
raw lung or a red tonsil. 

So I wrung the neck 
myself. Nod, moon, nod, 
axe.
Nature nodded back
and I plucked the bird 
bare.