(9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974 / Newton, Massachusetts)

poet Anne Sexton
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Poems of Anne Sexton

1. 45 Mercy Street 6/27/2006
2. A Curse Against Elegies 6/27/2006
3. A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston 6/27/2006
4. Admonitions To A Special Person 6/27/2006
5. After Auschwitz 6/27/2006
6. Again and Again and Again 6/27/2006
7. All My Pretty Ones 3/29/2010
8. An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love 6/27/2006
9. And One For My Dame 6/27/2006
10. Angels of the Love Affair 6/27/2006
11. Anna Who Was Mad 6/27/2006
12. As It Was Written 6/27/2006
13. August 17th 6/27/2006
14. August 8th 6/27/2006
15. Baby Picture 6/27/2006
16. Barefoot 6/27/2006
17. Bat 6/27/2006
18. Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) 6/27/2006
19. Buying the Whore 6/27/2006
20. Christmas Eve 6/27/2006

Music Swims Back to Me

Wait Mister. Which way is home?
They turned the light out
and the dark is moving in the corner.
There are no sign posts in this room,
four ladies, over eighty,
in diapers every one of them.
La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me

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