Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling ...
Anne Sexton Poems on Fathers (21 Poems)
Angels Of The Love Affair (Anne Sexton Poems)
Angels of the love affair, do you know that other,the dark one, that other me?1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALSAngel ...
Cinderella (Anne Sexton Poems)
You always read about it:the plumber with the twelve childrenwho wins the Irish Sweepstakes.From toilets to riches.That story.Or the nursemaid,some ...
The House (Anne Sexton Poems)
In dreams the same bad dream goes on. Like some gigantic German toy the house has been rebuilt upon its ...
Menstruation At Forty (Anne Sexton Poems)
I was thinking of a son. The womb is not a clock nor a bell tolling, but in the eleventh ...
Consorting With Angels (Anne Sexton Poems)
I was tired of being a woman,tired of the spoons and the post,tired of my mouth and my breasts,tired of ...
The Truth The Dead Know (Anne Sexton Poems)
For my mother, born March 1902, died March 1959 and my father, born February 1900, died June 1959 Gone, I ...
Flee On Your Donkey (Anne Sexton Poems)
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
And One For My Dame (Anne Sexton Poems)
A born salesman, my father made all his dough by selling wool to Fieldcrest, Woolrich and Faribo. A born talker, ...
The Wedding Ring Dance (Anne Sexton Poems)
I dance in circles holding the moth of the marriage, thin, sticky, fluttering its skirts, its webs. The moth oozing ...
The Bells (Anne Sexton Poems)
Today the circus poster is scabbing off the concrete wall and the children have forgotten if they knew at all. ...
The Big Heart (Anne Sexton Poems)
"Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold." - From an essay by W. B. Yeats ...
Cripples And Other Stories (Anne Sexton Poems)
My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme... ...
The Moss Of His Skin (Anne Sexton Poems)
"Young girls in old Arabia were often buried alive next to their fathers, apparently as sacrifice to the goddesses of ...
The Fury Of Hating Eyes (Anne Sexton Poems)
I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere off the North Atlantic and suffocate them ...
Cinderella (Anne Sexton Poems)
You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. ...
Angels Of The Love Affair (Anne Sexton Poems)
"Angels of the love affair, do you know that other, the dark one, that other me?" 1. ANGEL OF FIRE ...
All My Pretty Ones (Anne Sexton Poems)
Father, this year's jinx rides us apart where you followed our mother to her cold slumber; a second shock boiling ...
Consorting With Angels (Anne Sexton Poems)
I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my ...
Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling ...
The Truth the Dead Know (Anne Sexton Poems)
For my Mother, born March 1902, died March 1959 and my Father, born February 1900, died June 1959 Gone, I ...