think of innocent Icarus
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! Anne Sexton
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think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! Anne Sexton
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable– so moist and breathlike. Anne Sexton
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you. Anne Sexton
life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack. Anne Sexton
So I won’t hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift. Anne Sexton
I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle. Anne Sexton
For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling. Anne Sexton
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives Anne Sexton
The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate. Anne Sexton
we do not explain my husband’s insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use. Anne Sexton