Metaphor And Memory

Now, after the storm, clouds

Hung up to dry on power lines,

Billowing in the breeze,

 

And after all these years, still

Bed sheets white and wind-whipped,

Still hanging in the tension and flexion

 

Of a moment that cannot last, yet does,

Still that moment before they fold

And fall again back into themselves,

 

Back in the year I could finally reach

The sagging line of rope,

The taste of wooden clothespins.





Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2011-05-17 at 15:31

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shells
Love the first two lines, your metaphors are strong throughout, lending this piece an air of nostalgia that I can identify with which brings me to my youth in the final stanza, a nice place to be. A deserving front page and applaud.
2011-05-18


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2011-05-17


Rob Graber
Oops! Make that "Calls."
2011-05-17


Rob Graber
PS: For another great clothesline-inspired poem, check out Richard Wilbur's "Love Call Us to the Things of This World."
2011-05-17


Rob Graber
Beautifully done; the sensory shift at the end from sight to touch and even taste are unexpected, and enormously effective. BRAVO!
2011-05-17