Metaphors are always
False by definition,
Similes are all too
Literally true.
Buried in the background
Under all that blasted
Whiteness the remains of
Winter's victims, namely
Our monosyllabic loves,
Pete and Lief and Bud
Cool it in uncertain
Expectation of a
Temporary thaw.
Edward Barrett
PROEM
The true story makes it abundantly clear long after those
diverting tales about the invention of cheese and silk panties,
or the humdrum life of giants in Giantville, and how the pil–
grims made their long journey to bring one surface in contact
with another surface, like two pages facing each other in a
book, with the interest more in the passage from one place
to the other and all the changes of light and suffering on
the voyage, the kinds of tunes they played on their tin whistles,
what dances, the shape of their hats and shoe buckles, just
the way our own passages from one state, say, of happiness to
another, say, of "dejection: an ode" are more interesting, more
fraught with danger than just showing up at the amphitheater.
Definitions are casually thrown in (short-sword: a sword with
a short blade), or "details on the whole are usually concrete,"
and facts from biology (vulva) as well as James Clerk Maxwell's
