"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Author
Work Title
Publisher
Orig. published in American Poetry Review
Date
2006
Metaphor
"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
Metaphor in Context
[...] Grievances and disagreements:
can they lead the way to grace? If our thoughts
and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste
of bile when we're defeated and be flavored faintly with grace on better days? I await the time
and place when you can tell me, little butter pear,
screeching monkey mind, wolf cub, curious furrow
browed mammal what you think of all this.
(pp. 32-3)
and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste
of bile when we're defeated and be flavored faintly with grace on better days? I await the time
and place when you can tell me, little butter pear,
screeching monkey mind, wolf cub, curious furrow
browed mammal what you think of all this.
(pp. 32-3)
Categories
Citation
Gerstler, Amy. ""For My Niece Sidney, Age Six." The Best American Poetry. Eds. Billy Collins and David Lehman. Simon and Schuster, 2006. pp. 30-3. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
11/11/2009
