"as the Whale dives / snapping our mind / like a lifeboat ?"
— Plumb, David
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Berkeley, CA
Publisher
Thorp Springs Press
Date
1972
Metaphor
"as the Whale dives / snapping our mind / like a lifeboat ?"
Metaphor in Context
drowing
when the tide is out
swimming around
in an inch
of misunderstanding
desperately reaching
for a dock
while distant engines
grumble
as the Whale dives
snapping our mind
like a lifeboat ?
when the tide is out
swimming around
in an inch
of misunderstanding
desperately reaching
for a dock
while distant engines
grumble
as the Whale dives
snapping our mind
like a lifeboat ?
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
David Plumb, "Tides of the Poet as Mariner," The San Francisco Bark: A Gathering of Bay Area Poets, eds. Thomas Head and Paul Foreman (Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press, 1972).
Date of Entry
07/12/2021
