Cheese Icarus

 
Peripheral
paraphernalia burned
away, Icarus is
the cheese
that stands
alone,
porous like
Swiss,
greening like
gorgonzola—
sun-grilled,
sandwiched
between
sky & sea,
melting into tailless
tuna in the oily
Aegean.

M.C. Escher
convergence of
fish & bird,
Icarus is
also a mosaic
piece, a
nursery rhyme
fragment, cast-
away fingernail
paring; a floating
obscene
signifier—
but always,
the solitary
cheese; single
waxy Kraft
slice, residue
of manufactured
American
hunger, standing
alone.