“Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper”
-Elizabeth Bishop
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“Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper”
-Elizabeth Bishop
“When the clouds part
like stupid lovers,
I close my eyes and press
myself against
the eucalyptus tree.”
-Erika Sánchez
“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm -”
-Emily Dickinson
“And Mother, startled, shook
out a dress with big peonies splashed like dirt
across the front, as if she had fallen
chasing after me in the rain.”
– Susan Mitchell
“I don’t expect the anxiety to go away
but I want the anxiety to know
its place in the scheme of things
of which I seem to consist.
I want anxiety to be
not an attention getter or star,
but faceless, like a butler bearing trays”
-Michael Dennis Brown
The Simile Museum 