Tag: metaphor
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TACO Tuesday
Every Tuesday, someone swearsthey’ll be the star of the table:bold flavours, big stories,a whole performance promisedbefore the tortillas are even warm. They make an entrance in advance,loud in the group chat,full of swagger and spicethey never quite bring with them. But when the night arrives,there’s always a sudden excuse,a last‑minute shuffle,a quiet retreat from the…
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First Draft
Religion was our first attempt at science.It was our earliest way of pointing at the dark and insisting it meant something. Before we had instruments, we had stories; before we had proofs, we had patterns we hoped were real. It wasn’t wrong, just early; a draft of understanding written in metaphor because metaphor was the…
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Thriving on Neglect
Some plants demand misting schedules, filtered light, and the emotional stability of their owner.Mine prefers to be forgotten.It waits until I’m busy, then grows an entirely new leaf out of spite,as if to say that attention is a burdenand survival is easier without witnesses. I water it only when guilt becomes visible,and it responds by…
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Pen on Paper
The pen wakes like a small animal, eager and nervous,its nib a whispering toe that finds the page’s skin.First a thin complaint, then a steady braid of ink;letters like footprints, each one a tiny arrival. There’s a sound like someone clearing an old room,the scratch that makes thought leave the head and live on the…
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On Lantern Street
Down on Lantern Street,where the awnings flap like gossip,there’s a marketplacethat sells emotions like produce. Joy comes in crates.Bright, bruised,and priced by the pound.Sadness is cheaper,stacked in blue paper conesbeside the wilted herbs. Anger sizzles in jarsthat rattle when you shake them.Hope is sold in tiny bundlesthat smell faintly of rain. Vendors shout their bargains:“Two…