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Third-Person Metaphor
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb is the author of Shapes That Stay (Kelsay Books, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Slipstream Magazine, New York Quarterly, Weber: The Contemporary West, Camas: The Nature of the West, The Midwest Quarterly, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. She is a cofounder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit natural history press.
It’s easier in third-person
metaphor to watch one’s own
demise—say, perhaps,
a low-flying hawk
passes over some gnarled
tree, almost dead but not
quite, gray and shadowed,
a strange, familiar thing
seen from a distance above,
pale trunk, branches—still,
a silent, twisted woman
who looks a lot like me.
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