"But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself."
— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Keene, NY
Publisher
Ausable Press
Date
2001
Metaphor
"But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself."
Metaphor in Context
46.
We invent a great Loss to convince ourselves we have a beginning. But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself.
(p. 13)
We invent a great Loss to convince ourselves we have a beginning. But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself.
(p. 13)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays (Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2001).
Theme
Stream of Consciousness
Date of Entry
06/03/2011
