Espada’s Mexican Cab Driver, and the everyday simile…
They asked
if you are like the moon
or the trees.
I said no,
she is like the bridge
when there is so much traffic
I have time
to watch the boats
on the river.
-excerpt from Martin Espada’s “The Mexican Cabdriver’s Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him”
This wonderful simile, drawn from something so simple, so every day, influenced me to look into my own everyday:
It led me to jot down (more…)
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