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The Guardian - UK
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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung

the texture of small drops on the glass from the rain
‘A drawing made / on the world I can perceive’ … Photograph: Athima Tongloom/Getty Images

Simile

How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here. (The here is where
the somethings touch.) The rainy
night, like Debussy.
There on the shelf, a piece

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