DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms" by Francesca Abbate The content of this poem is a bit chaotic -- the nice day comes at the end of the storms in a sense.  However, the technique in this poem: the weight of similes, the conceptual conceit, interests me the most. "Everything is half here"  is such a broad conceptual statement which is then followed by the simile of:      like the marble head      of the Roman emperor      and the lean torso      of his favorite The simile, the other half, doesn't really compliment the concept; rather, they appear more at odds.  Not in the sense of one or the other, but rather the "marble head / of the Roman emperor" is taking either more or less space than the, "lean torso / of his favorite."  Nothing too visceral, nothing too extreme, just the question asked -- which half is more important.   This idea follows through with a catastroph...