"O woman, with a mind Picasso / could have painted, giving you many cheeks, / each one turned a different way."
— Sholl, Betsy
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Madison
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Date
2004
Metaphor
"O woman, with a mind Picasso / could have painted, giving you many cheeks, / each one turned a different way."
Metaphor in Context
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syntactically correct sentence.
All the driver has to say is "Move it,
Lady," and you're back with the Quakers
who trained you to lie still and limp in the street.
Three days they stepped on your hair,
ground cigarettes half an inch from your nose,
while you lay there, trying to be against
violence, your fists tight as grenades
and a payload of curses between your teeth,
O woman, with a mind Picasso
could have painted, giving you many cheeks,
each one turned a different way.
syntactically correct sentence.
All the driver has to say is "Move it,
Lady," and you're back with the Quakers
who trained you to lie still and limp in the street.
Three days they stepped on your hair,
ground cigarettes half an inch from your nose,
while you lay there, trying to be against
violence, your fists tight as grenades
and a payload of curses between your teeth,
O woman, with a mind Picasso
could have painted, giving you many cheeks,
each one turned a different way.
Categories
Provenance
Reading. Text available at Poetry.org <http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16719>
Citation
Sholl, Betsy. Late Psalm. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. <Link>
Date of Entry
06/26/2007
