Housewife, by Kelly Fordon

Joy, by Jill Slaymaker (USA). 1990. Click image for artist website.

Housewife
 
Again and again
Oy not joy
see how the mannequin
wife does the dishes
you can position her
just so
nubile breasts
and ice cream cone
torso
floral plates
walnut shell eyes
the light
from the window
moves across her
like it moves
across that chair
over there

Kelly Fordon

Kelly Fordon’s work has appeared in The Florida Review, The Kenyon Review (KRO), Rattle and various other journals. Her poetry and fiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks. The first one, On the Street Where We Live, won the 2012 Standing Rock Chapbook Award and the latest one, The Witness, won the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for the Chapbook and was shortlisted for the Grand Prize. Her novel-in-stories, Garden for the Blind, was chosen as a Michigan Notable Book, a 2016 Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, an Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist in the short story category. She works for The College for Creative Studies, Springfed Arts and The InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit. www.kellyfordon.com.