“As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.”
-Herman Melville
The Simile Museum
Tag: Simile
September 10, 2016
“The twins are blond with big heads, skinny bodies dangling below like strings under balloons.”
-Amber Sparks
September 5, 2016
“Lord Byron made a show of his grief and sent for her body as if it were a rare volume, the thing that had been missing from his library all along.”
-Megan Mayhew Bergman
August 20, 2016
“The girl’s face was as tight and mean as broccoli.”
-Toni Morrison
August 15, 2016
“Trivial as a parrot’s prate.”
-William Cowper
August 2, 2016
“Valerian Street was mindful of their criticism, but completely indifferent to it. His grey eyes drifted over the face of such guests like a four o’clock shadow on its way to twilight.”
-Toni Morrison
July 27, 2016
“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
-Virginia Woolf
July 22, 2016
“It’s her birthday, so I smile
but I can’t stop the images
in my own untreated head
— dendrites sprouting threads
like untended ivy, brewing
storms of dopamine and serotonin,
everything out of kilter, ready
to blow.”
-Lauren K. Alleyne
July 16, 2016
“She wore her body like a mistake she hoped to one day be forgiven for.”
-Naomi Jackson
July 12, 2016
The roads unroll like receipts — connecting
shopping cluster to subdivision,
the valley floor thickening with concrete
and plots of unnatural green—and run on,
unconcluded, in lines that buckle with heat.
– Claire McQuerry
The Simile Museum 