"He felt ash filling up his chest and throat from the inside, blocking his mouth and thickening his heart and filling up his head, he hoped, blocking it out like the heavy gray ceiling of winter settling in over the plains, so that he would not be able to see into it."

— Nadzam, Bonnie

Author

Nadzam, Bonnie

Work Title

Lamb

Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Other Press
Date
2011
Metaphor
"He felt ash filling up his chest and throat from the inside, blocking his mouth and thickening his heart and filling up his head, he hoped, blocking it out like the heavy gray ceiling of winter settling in over the plains, so that he would not be able to see into it."
Metaphor in Context
It was the fever that'd cracked him open. Lamb had wanted to return her to her mother shipshape twelve on a ten scale. The plan had been to bring her home fast, three days on the road and no time for this kind of slippage, but there it was. Everything was off. He felt ash filling up his chest and throat from the inside, blocking his mouth and thickening his heart and filling up his head, he hoped, blocking it out like the heavy gray ceiling of winter settling in over the plains, so that he would not be able to see into it. Not after this day. Not after this.
(p. 263)
Categories
Fire::Ash Weather::Winter Weather::Gray Sky
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Bonnie Nadzam, Lamb (New York: Other Press, 2011).
Date of Entry
06/07/2016

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