Metaphor #32

// Mandy May

The body as muscle // as emotion // as vessel // as dried tea //
as leaves // as honey crisps on plastic edges // as sugar crystal
// as molasses // as gentle fold of velvet skin // as swollen red
kindling // as limp soaked cardboard // as liquid stamp of bloated
trash bag bottom // as trash can // as sun bright like migraines
against the morning // as blue pure brilliance // as a promise //
as compromise // as star exploding // as black hole