"you are the smell of summers" is an example

a. paradox
b. hyperbole
c. metaphor
d. simile

C. metaphor.

Explanation: a metaphor is an indirect comparison between two thing that aren't obviously related to each other. A simile is also a comparison but it uses words like "like" to make it, for example: you are strong like a rock. The given sentence is a clear example of a metaphor, where the speaker is comparing a person to the smell of summers, we can see that it doesn't use "like" or any other word to make the comparison.

coin toss of the tosses to the toss

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can