Metaphors for My Forgetful Heart
My body is a drum, its last vibration fading out. My body is a temple, serene and contemplative, all voices finally stilled. My body is a glider plane, floating on warm currents of air in the eerie, engineless quiet.
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Michael Fischer
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Michael Fischer is currently earning an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College. He is managing editor of Sierra Nevada Review, assistant nonfiction editor of Profane, an interview contributor to Sixty Inches from Center, and a Moth Chicago StorySlam winner. He was recently awarded the Lesley University Mani Iyer Writer Scholarship and the inaugural Emerging Writer Fellowship in Nonfiction, Memoir, & Essay from the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Sun, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, Hobart, and elsewhere.