Cheese

poem about aged dairy

Tasty tart of cow:
orange, yellow, white, then blue
star to sun to supernova 
to                   black hole 
to black hole
to                   black hole,
each more pungent 
than the last.

¹art by Pragna Gaddamedi (@prgs.jpeg)

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Poetry Tip of the Day!

As a long-time cheese fanatic, this poem was inevitable. My general rule for cheese is the stinkier the better. Blue cheese dressing and wings, manchego cheese and crackers, french onion soup, gorgonzola on pizza…the list goes on and on and on. So then, how could I write a poem that properly captures the beautiful decay that is cheese? How could I do justice to both the smells and the tastes? This is my ode to cheese.

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1. corn cheese