"You were one of them, / weren't you, with death / itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?"
— Guest, Paul
Author
Work Title
Date
2016
Metaphor
"You were one of them, / weren't you, with death / itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?"
Metaphor in Context
You'll inform me you bled out a long time ago.
In Chicago. In Reading.
Somewhere cold. Winter
all the time, where people go
down to the frozen water
with an old crowbar
to bash the skin of the ice back to flowing current.
You were one of them,
weren't you, with death
itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?
You won't fall if I let go.
I never held you in my arms.
In Chicago. In Reading.
Somewhere cold. Winter
all the time, where people go
down to the frozen water
with an old crowbar
to bash the skin of the ice back to flowing current.
You were one of them,
weren't you, with death
itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?
You won't fall if I let go.
I never held you in my arms.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Paul Guest, "Watched Pot Apostrophes," Diode 9.2. <Link to diodepoetry.com>
Date of Entry
07/11/2016
