Sexton, Anne

“Just Once”


• ... counted the stars, my little campaigners,
  my scar daisies ...
“KE 6–8018”


• Black lady,what will I dowithout your two flowers?I have inhabited you, number by number.I have push...
• Although I will inherit darknessI will keep dialing left to right.I will struggle like a surgeon.I w...
“Keeping the City”


• I wanted him to fly, burst like a missile from your throat,burst from the spidery-mother-web,burst f...
• it was you untying the snarls and knots,the webs, all bloody and gluey;you with your twelve tongues ...
“Killing the Love”


• I am the love killer,I am murdering the music we thought so special,that blazed between us, over and...
• Now I am alone with the dead,flying off bridges,hurling myself like a beer can into the wastebasket....
“Killing the Spring”


• I could not see the spring.I could not hear the spring.I could not touch the spring.Once upon a time...
• I tied down time with a ropebut it came back.ThenI put my head in a death bowland my eyes shut up li...
“Kind Sir: These Woods”


• Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worsethan myself, caught between the grapes and the ...
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