Writer: Jenny Stalter

Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors

Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors

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Your body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch.more