“Sometimes one will disappear into himself / like a ram charging a mirror.”
– Kaveh Akbar
The Simile Museum
Tag: Simile
April 19, 2016
“Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper”
-Elizabeth Bishop
April 16, 2016
“Here’s Jacob: thirty-four god-damn years old, rock in his hand, beard like a troubled distraction, like an itch, the red eyes of someone sleepless and wild. Here’s Jacob, tongue-cottoned and pale, ragged and unkempt. He looks like an old man, or like an old man dipped in wax. It’s bad. He looks like people you see on the street and you think, ‘Jesus fuck, what happened to that guy?’ His beard is a dead animal glued to his face.”
-Zulema Renee Summerfield
April 12, 2016
“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”
– James Baldwin
April 7, 2016
“Standing in the bathroom she was as anonymous as a chicken.”
-Clarice Lispector
April 4, 2016
“Words are like leaves, some wither every year”
-Horace
March 29, 2016
“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
-Lauren Groff
March 25, 2016
“The future isn’t what it used to be. Even Bowie thirsts
For something good and cold. Jets blink across the sky
Like migratory souls.”
-Tracy K. Smith
March 21, 2016
“I felt as if someone had taken a vegetable peeler to my nerves.”
-T.C. Boyle
March 14, 2016
“I turned around to look at him again, but he was already in the postal truck, pulling out into the street, and all I could see was the back of his postal truck, square as a nun.”
-Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
The Simile Museum 