The more metaphors

a poet stuffs into

a few lines is potato

sausage stretching the

gorged intestines of

a constipated bull just

before it bursts in the

hands of a Swede who

stuffs  the sausage into

a stew pot and slams

the cover with an

exclamation mark

heralding the

celebratory Christ-

mas season as the

boiling lutfisk

lifts the cover of

the pot on the next

burner revealing the

stinkiness of the

poet’s stuffed sausage

stanza not to mention

the literary allusion to

luscious lutfisk.