"Culture: a kind of knife: / cuts one way     opens / your brain to a certain / breed of light     shaves / consciousness to its // purpose, its cross."

— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)


Work Title
Date
March, 2014
Metaphor
"Culture: a kind of knife: / cuts one way     opens / your brain to a certain / breed of light     shaves / consciousness to its // purpose, its cross."
Metaphor in Context
Culture: a kind of knife:
cuts one way     opens
your brain to a certain
breed of light     shaves
consciousness to its

purpose, its cross
: the nail
thru your hand >< your
other hand holding
the hammer.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Tim Seibles, "Mosaic," Poetry (March, 2014). <Link to the Poetry Foundation>
Date of Entry
02/28/2018

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