BASIL METAPHOR

BASIL METAPHOR

I think we think in metaphor first without realizing it
and then we work our way back toward simile
so people don't think we're nuts!

This AM I looked at my recently shorn basil
(who recently committed their leaves to pestocide)
and thought of "sheep." Sheep-shorn basil.

Then I corrected myself: basil, like shorn sheep.

Either that, or it was the catnip to blame.

5/9/09