Dead Metaphor

• I plucked this metaphor
• from a public garden

 

• (I know it is illegal)

 

• Hold it by the stem
• Watch out for the thorns!

 

• The petals are classic
• Pandora—

 

• Get through without
• unveiling

 

• French perfume can’t
• hold a candle to its scent

 

• Go down on it
• with your face

 

• Fall
• and the bees lick you
• for pollen—

 

• roll you
• like sex
• into honey

 

• (This metaphor
• is no vehicle
• for hackneyed tenors)

 

• Let Zephyr
• gift it
• to a poet

 

Photo by Morgane Le Breton from Unsplash.