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Category Sylvia Plath

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

Lady Lazarus

I have done it again.One year in every tenI manage it——A sort of walking miracle, my skinBright as a Nazi lampshade,My right footA paperweight,My face a featureless, fineJew linen.Peel off the napkinO my enemy.Do I terrify?——The nose, the eye pits,…

Purdah

Jade — Stone of the side, The antagonized Side of green Adam, I Smile, cross-legged, Enigmatical, Shifting my clarities. So valuable! How the sun polishes this shoulder! And should The moon, my Indefatigable cousin Rise, with her cancerous pallors, Dragging…

Nick and the Candlestick

I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airs Wrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides. They weld to me like plums. Old cave of…

Poppies in October

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts. Nor the woman in the ambulance Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly — A gift, a love gift Utterly unasked for By a sky Palely and flamily Igniting…

Ariel

Stasis in darkness.Then the substanceless bluePour of tor and distances. God’s lioness,How one we grow,Pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow Splits and passes, sister toThe brown arcOf the neck I cannot catch, Nigger-eyeBerries cast darkHooks— Black sweet blood mouthfuls,Shadows.Something else…

The Tour

O maiden aunt, you have come to call. Do step into the hall! With your bold Gecko, the little flick! All cogs, weird sparkle and every cog solid gold. And I in slippers and housedress with no lipstick! And you…

By Candlelight

This is winter, this is night, small love — A sort of black horsehair, A rough, dumb country stuff Steeled with the sheen Of what green stars can make it to our gate. I hold you on my arm. It…

Cut

For Susan O’Neill Roe What a thrill – My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge Of skin, A flap like a hat, Dead white. Then that red plush. Little pilgrim, The…

Lyonnesse

No use whistling for Lyonnesse! Sea-cold, sea-cold it certainly is. Take a look at the white, high berg on his forehead- There’s where it sunk. The blue, green, Gray, indeterminate gilt Sea of his eyes washing over it And a…

Amnesiac

No use, no use, now, begging Recognize! There is nothing to do with such a beautiful blank but smooth it. Name, house, car keys, The little toy wife— Erased, sigh, sigh. Four babies and a cocker! Nurses the size of…