Simile

How does a simile work?

— Place something next to something

and say, here . (The here is where

the somethings touch.) The rainy

night, like Debussy.

There on the shelf, a piece

of grapevine in a blue

vase. The world is so much

like itself it can be hard to see.

Tomorrow I will try again

to understand: what is a simile?

All night, all day: the rain

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