Foxwife

after Anne Sexton’s “Housewife”

Some women marry foxes.
She wears her furs around the house,
red as a fever, blood
under the fresh manicure.
See how she prepares the meal:
rabbit for lunch, rabbit
for dinner. Men come home
hungry as hounds after the chase.
A woman is the hunter.
That’s the main thing.

Author of the article

Lindsay Lusby has published work in The Coachella Review and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. When she is avoiding her writing, she likes to print with antique letterpress, tinker with typewriters, bind books, and read and read and read until she falls asleep on the dog. She is the Assistant Director of The Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She blogs at www.ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com.