"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
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Place of Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Date
2014
Metaphor
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
Metaphor in Context
That time and that time and that time the outside blistered the inside of you, words outmaneuvered years, had you in a chokehold, every part roughed up, the eyes dripping.
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
(p. 156)
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
(p. 156)
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Citation
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014).
Date of Entry
11/15/2015
