United States, (contemporary)
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown soon brought him down,
Dickory, dickory, dare.
The Impact of Bliss* on Pigs and Poets
- Inspired
- by the distinctively
- resinous,
- sweet smell
- of ripe,
- unpeeled bliss,
- and the fact that fresh
- bliss spoils rapidly,
- pigs consume and poets
- exude bliss so quickly
- they’ve been known
- to develop blisters,
- blistering metaphors,
- bliss envy
- and even fleeting moments of
- marital bliss
- resulting in
- a whole genre
- of flash-pastoral verse
- dubbed
- “pork chop poetry,”
- a profound rise in porcine
- oblissity,
- and a blessed population of
- blissed-out,
- nouveau riche
- poets.
About the Poet:
Susan Chase-Foster, United States, (contemporary), is a poet, blogger, painter and writer. Susan lives joyfully in Bellingham, WA and travels the world recording observations in her blog, poems and watercolor journals. She says: “I mostly write poetry, what I like to call ‘poemoirs,’ poems based on moments from my life. ”
Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Clover, A Literary Rag; Cirque, A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim; and Noisy Water: Poetry from Whatcom County, Washington.
Her ‘poemoir’ experiences manifest themselves in her passion for traveling to exotic places like the Penghu Islands of Taiwan, Anakiwa, New Zealand and the pristine white villages of Andalucía, Spain and a Mexican fishing village where she lived for a few years and learned to make tortillas by hand and paint watercolors using cerveza for water. [DES-01/22]
Additional information:
- Susan Chase-Foster – https://susanchase-foster.com/
- Still Life with Tortillas – https://stilllifewithtortillas.com/
- After her son, Moshe Foster, moved to Taiwan in the winter of 2005, Susan Chase-Foster began a series of visits during which the pair explored remote areas of the island, as well as the maze of lanes, alleys, mountains, markets, parks and architecture of Taipei, a city of nearly 3 million people, and a million scooters. In Xiexie Taipei moments of geographical and cultural discovery are captured in what Susan calls “poemoirs,” and in Moshe’s finely rendered black and white photographs:Taipei : poems and images from Taiwan. Susan Chase-Foster and Moshe Foster. Bellingham, WA: Independent Writer’s Studio Press (2018)