"Memory, / a jar of flies. Spin off the lid."
— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Author
Work Title
Date
March, 2014
Metaphor
"Memory, / a jar of flies. Spin off the lid."
Metaphor in Context
What skinny faith you have —
and such big teeth: all
the better. I mean to step out
of history for just a minute,
to feel my blood float
above the say-so. Memory,
a jar of flies. Spin off the lid.
I forget what you know. What
did you ever know?
and such big teeth: all
the better. I mean to step out
of history for just a minute,
to feel my blood float
above the say-so. Memory,
a jar of flies. Spin off the lid.
I forget what you know. What
did you ever know?
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Tim Seibles, "Mosaic," Poetry (March, 2014). <Link to the Poetry Foundation>
Date of Entry
02/28/2018
