Sporadic but Steady Quotes (April poetry quotes)

[bardiphouka]

I have gone out, a possessed witch,

haunting the black air, braver at night;

dreaming evil, I have done my hitch

over the plain houses, light by light:

lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.

I have been her kind.



I have found the warm caves in the woods,

filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,

closets, silks, innumerable goods;

fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:

whining, rearranging the disaligned.

A woman like that is misunderstood.

I have been her kind.



I have ridden in your cart, driver,

waved my nude arms at villages going by,

learning the last bright routes, survivor

where your flames still bite my thigh

and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.

A woman like that is not ashamed to die.

I have been her kind.

Anne Sexton

Comments

[niallm.livejournal.com]

Anne Sexton is great. This always reminds me (somehow?) of Elizabeth Bishops' 'One Art'.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me..Amy Irving is doing an off broadway play based on the life of Elizabeth Bishop. "A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop"