[I am in love / with Anne Sexton]

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Open Poetry #43

[I am in love / with Anne Sexton]

shirtless
Member

since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

0 posted 2008-07-24 10:47 AM

I am
in love
with Anne Sexton

her arms
aching on the oars

her breasts
small as diamonds

I am
in love
with Anne Sexton

whose heart
was a keg
in which love
was a sip

whose stomach
was greater
than the morsel
of god

I am
in love
with Anne Sexton

her eyelids
opening
and closing
like the gates
of a prison

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kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

1 posted 2008-07-24 11:05 AM

it's a thought-provoking last stanza--because they trap you? interesting thought

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

2 posted 2008-07-24 12:01 PM

damn, makes me want to write like this about the girl I love, and it made me think of her, which I thank you for. Wonderful devotional heartspeak and the descriptions make me smile.

"How do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on?" -- Tom Waits, 'Mr. Siegal'

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

3 posted 2008-07-25 12:02 PM

her arms
aching on the oars

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I like your choice of words here.

Very cool poem, shirtless~

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

4 posted 2008-07-25 07:11 AM

I always love learning about someone who was a wonderful poet~~ thank you for the name and words

M

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