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Saved by his gift
like many of us
little Eichmanns,
little mothers
I'd say.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Wonderful Musician.")
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Here, in front of the summer hotel
the beach waits like an altar.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Kite.")
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and in moonlight she comes in her nudity,
flashing breasts made of milk-water,
flashing buttocks made of unkillable lust,
and at night when you enter her
you shine like a neon soprano.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Consecrating Mother.")
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we are the circle of the crazy ladies
who sit in the lounge of the mental house
and smile at the smiling woman
who passes us each a bell,
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. Ringing the Bells (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete Poems [Anne Sexton]. (1981) Houghton Mifflin.)
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It is panting; it is an odor with a face
like the skin of a donkey. It laps my sores.
It is hurt, I think, as I touch its little head.
It bleeds.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "In the Deep Museum.")
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Houses haunt me.
That last house!
How it sat like a square box!
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "February 11th.")
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To tell the truth
days are all the same size
and words aren't much company.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Letter Written During a January Northeaster.")
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