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 ...
Anne Sexton Poems on Mothers (49 Poems)
The Double Image (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
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... ...
Demon (Anne Sexton Poems)
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes...-- D. H. Lawrence ...
Christmas Eve (Anne Sexton Poems)
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods-- that present that ...
The Wifebeater (Anne Sexton Poems)
There will be mud on the carpet tonight and blood in the gravy as well. The wifebeater is out, the ...
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 ...
Rapunzel (Anne Sexton Poems)
A woman who loves a woman is forever young. The mentor and the student feed off each other. Many a ...
For The Year Of The Insane (Anne Sexton Poems)
a prayer O Mary, fragile mother, hear me, hear me now although I do not know your words. The black ...
The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks (Anne Sexton Poems)
In my dream I milked a cow, the terrible udder like a great rubber lily sweated in my fingers and ...
Cinderella (Anne Sexton Poems)
You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. ...
45 Mercy Street (Anne Sexton Poems)
In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I'm walking up and down Beacon ...
Sylvia’s Death (Anne Sexton Poems)
for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering ...
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 ...
The Addict (Anne Sexton Poems)
Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles I make arrangements ...
Housewife (Anne Sexton Poems)
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. ...
For My Lover, Returning To His Wife (Anne Sexton Poems)
She is all there. She was melted carefully down for you and cast up from your childhood, cast up from ...
Live (Anne Sexton Poems)
Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell ...
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 ...