"Call Me Pier" by Susan Firer
I have just returned from a visit to my pier
Often I am permitted to return to my pier
For a long time I would go to pier early
So much depends upon a pier
This is an old pier
I celebrate my pier, and what I assume . . .
I had a pier
There is a certain slant of pier
On woman's first disobedience, and the pier
Christmas won't be Christmas without the pier
I wandered lonely as a pier
Pier was spiteful
This is just to say I have eaten the pier
Susan Firer grew up in Milwaukee, where she continues to live, write, and work; she also
serves as the city’s poet laureate. She is the author of five books of poetry, including
Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1979–2007 and The
Laugh We Make When We Fall, which won the Backwaters Prize
A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by
implication. In this case Firer replaces all the words with pier, so when she is talking about
'piers' she is talking about something else.
In the poem it is talking about a pier and how everything surrounds it. If there was no pier
there would be chaos. It is the most important thing every. People depend on the pier to
make the world go round. I think the pier is a woman because if there weren't any women
there wouldn't be anyone to help continue the generation.
I chose this photo of a woman on a pier because it shows how the pier is very important. Not only does the pier hold people up to keep them save, it also a place where people can clear their minds and get away from it all. Just like women, they hold up and help them when they need someone to talk to.