A Trembling Ceiling Fan as Metaphor for Anxious Instability
The poem uses a shaking ceiling fan to show how one person's intense presence unsettles a room and breeds anxiety.
Look how you turned on the ceiling fan—it’s too high, see how it shakes and trembles. You walk into this room with your hot ideas and the ceiling fan has to work harder to cool down the room for us. You walk into this room with your crazy eyes and the ceiling fan wants to fly loose. It dreams of becoming a spider lily.
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