"And the end of your pleasure: / elegant neurons switching in a blink, / lighting your brain like a great city."
— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
The Southern Review
Date
2000
Metaphor
"And the end of your pleasure: / elegant neurons switching in a blink, / lighting your brain like a great city."
Metaphor in Context
It's the death of your memory I still
cannot fathom: never in such small space
such wealth. A diamond the size
of your brain would be nothing to it.
And the end of your pleasure:
elegant neurons switching in a blink,
lighting your brain like a great city.
No pleasure anywhere can replace it.
(ll. 1-8)
cannot fathom: never in such small space
such wealth. A diamond the size
of your brain would be nothing to it.
And the end of your pleasure:
elegant neurons switching in a blink,
lighting your brain like a great city.
No pleasure anywhere can replace it.
(ll. 1-8)
Categories
Provenance
Poem brought to my attention by the author.
Citation
Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris. "I Will." The Southern Review. 36:3 (Summer 2000). pp. 535-6.
Date of Entry
01/19/2009
Date of Review
03/30/2009
