Poems by Anne Sexton
Oh
... Snow! See the mark, the pock, the pock!Meanwhile you pour tea ...
A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston
... And the picking up afterwards, the morticians tracking ...
Mr. Mine
... and, ladies and gentlemen, he's been broken by iron, ...
The Witch's Life
... there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch ...
The Breast
... sex will be transfixed!Now I am your mother, your daughter, your brand new thing -- a snail, a nest ...
The Evil Seekers
... one is free to grasp at the trees, the stones, ...
August 17th
... bodies vomiting up their juice like detergent, Here in this house ...
The Frog Prince
... Kaboom!Like a genie coming out of a samovar, ...
Wallflower
... Come friend, I have an old story to tell youListen ...
Lessons In Hunger
... No answer. Silence bounced out of his books ...
Again and Again and Again
... I have sewn it over my left breast ...
The Gold Key
... Presto! It opens this book of odd tales ...
Locked Doors
... except inside where their hearts are covered with grubs ...
The Ambition Bird
... M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following ...
Elegy In The Classroom
... our facts for your burly sorceryor ignore your fat blind eyes ...
