"If it goes off / If my imagination detonates, orphans me."
— Dunlap, Mary (1949-2003)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Berkeley
Publisher
Cloud Marauder Press
Date
1970
Metaphor
"If it goes off / If my imagination detonates, orphans me."
Metaphor in Context
If it goes off
If my imagination detonates, orphans me:
1) The air around my head will fill
with fingers and feathers
pointing down.
2) My feet will split to water,
and will flow.
3) I will feel (a) loneliness,
and then
(b) nothing at all.
If my imagination detonates, orphans me:
1) The air around my head will fill
with fingers and feathers
pointing down.
2) My feet will split to water,
and will flow.
3) I will feel (a) loneliness,
and then
(b) nothing at all.
Categories
Provenance
Reading at the Bancroft Library
Citation
"If It Goes Off" in American Poems, ed. Josephine Miles (Berkeley: Cloud Marauder Press, 1970).
Date of Entry
08/09/2018
