Metaphors
Sara Carvalho
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf ’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-¬minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded a train there’s no getting off.
Sylvia Plath,