06 February 2007

Metaphors

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 the train there's no getting off.

~Sylvia Plath

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you are ummmmm ....Jenna?!!!

brooke said...

stay away from the oven. that's an order.

Rebecca said...

I love it. Though I never thought Sylvia Plath and a nice poem about pregnancy would go together.

jmg said...

away from the oven? but that would mean no baking!

anyway, i don't think i could bend over enough to get my head in the oven, even if i were crazy enough to want to!