"The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere, / Its hair naked in naked branches."
— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Author
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Date
2002
Metaphor
"The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere, / Its hair naked in naked branches."
Metaphor in Context
The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere,
Its hair naked in naked branches.
Spiders swing through my heart,
the moons of Jupiter turn and shine,
The river slides on its flaming wheel
And sings on summer mornings,
as though to croon itself to sleep.
(p. 59)
Its hair naked in naked branches.
Spiders swing through my heart,
the moons of Jupiter turn and shine,
The river slides on its flaming wheel
And sings on summer mornings,
as though to croon itself to sleep.
(p. 59)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Charles Wright, A Short History of the Shadow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).
Date of Entry
04/11/2012
