"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ


Work Title
Date
2003
Metaphor
"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"
Metaphor in Context
How to hold it all at once,

except by passion's climb,
   its rising tides & breathless,
hawk's-eye view? Believe the fallen leaf

from one world floats there,
   in another, tawny star on the black water,
the soul's cradle,

even when he must pause
   to rest his racing heart,
& cannot see it?

(ll. 12-21)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Spaar, Lisa Russ. "Lullabye." Blackbird. Vol 2. No. 2. Fall 2003. <www.blackbird.vcu.edu>
Date of Entry
02/11/2010

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.