Women's Work

[SpruceMoose]

This refuge along Parkway
where one returns after
emptying Fridays pay-
just to loosen lips,
and feet,
smells like
mother's macaroni,
cool grease,
stumbling nights,
and strolling days.

Here I,
in an apron that long since
failed to contain my
growing hips,
sway between
plywood corridors,
speckled with imitation. I feel like we jumped from the hallway to the kitchen here somehow. A tad disorienting if I have read that correctly. The use of corridors...
silver and porcelain.

As I bent to bus
a four-top I'd
picked up
from the mousy auburn, Mousey here can either mean brown like a mouse, or small. It may be redundant to auburn.
slowly,
and all "And then all at once" because it contradicts itself if both are used to express the same thing at the same moment.
at once 
the rough inseam
broke
in a small deluge
of soft flesh.

Manager Benji was a real
gold chain chest
hair kind of a man.
Stomach back crotch
forward kind of a man.
tear the tears from you
with his teeth kind of a man:
A man who fancied
himself a Man. I liked this flow after a few readings.

As he shook the house
he spittled into me
the spangled truth;
we own this space.
What a terrible excess
of mulled Blood in his Dick,
to address us,
as such,
in our own kingdom.
so I took my exposed
boyshorts,
regal in their way,
and I sauntered out with dignity
alone intact.  I really liked this entire stanza.

In my car,
I began
to put the rest of
myself 
back together.  Great ending!

I intended mousy to reference her facial features, and didn't even realize it could mean brown. Given that bit of weird ambiguity, I'll revise. You're absolutely right about the contradiction, and your recommendation works great, thank you

Happy to have been of some help!