Meat Chandelier
A Venetian blown glass chandelier,
its sculpted cuts—
Deborah Czeresko’s sausage links,
chops, pinkish kitsch,
no flowered frills.
Calabria Pork Store
on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx
uses real flesh for its phallic
ceiling’s chandelier arms—
like an Australian BBQ
candelabrum bearing three thousand
pounds of low and slow.
And then there’s the sexist slang
for gangbang: meat chandelier.
Bukkake, Japanese for splash,
a pornographic gangbang genre,
gets around heavy censorship
by showing ejaculate, faces,
but no baloney pony.
Why a queer glassmaker
makes a meat chandelier:
salami as feminist. Glass
Czeresko calls the great equalizer.
Her fat-fingered
fuck you to the male blowers.