I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.
Anne SextonI rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.
Out of used furniture she made a tree.
Anne SextonTuesday
I have invented a lie.
There is no other day but Monday.
It seemed reasonable to pretend
that I could change the day
like a pair of socks.
To tell the truth
days are all the same size
and words aren't much company.
If I were sick, I'd be a child,
tucked in under the woolens, sipping my broth.
As it is,
the days are not worth grabbing or lying about.
Nevertheless, you are the only one
that I can bother with this matter.
Monday
It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk
is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.
ركوب المصعد باتجاه السماء
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كما قال الاطفائي:
لا تحجز غرفة في الطابق الخامس
في أي فندق في نيويورك.
إن فيها سلالم تصل إلى أعلى من ذلك
ولكن لن يتسلقها أحد.
كما قالت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز:
المصعد دائما يبحث
عن طابق الحريق
وينفتح آليا
ولن ينغلق.
ها هي التحذيرات
التي عليك أن تنساها
إن كنت تتسلق خارجا من ذاتك
إن كنت ستنطلق بقوة باتجاه السماء.
مرات عدة تجاوزتُ
الطابقَ الخامس
أتلوّى صاعدا
إلا إنني لم أصل إلى هناك
إلا مرة واحدة.
الطابق الستون:
نبتات صغيرة وبجعات
تنعطف متجهة إلى قبرها.
الطابق المائتان:
جبال صبرها صبر قطة،
صمت يرتدي حذاءه الخفيف.
الطابق الخمسمائة:
رسائلُ وخطابات عمرها قرون،
طيورٌ تشرب
مطبخٌ من سُحُب.
الطابقُ الستة آلاف:
النجومُ،
هياكلُ عظمية تشتعل فيها النيران،
أذرعُها تغني.
ومفتاح،
مفتاح كبير جدا،
يفتح شيئا –
في مكان ما –
هناك فوق.
The snow has quietness in it; no songs,
no smells, no shouts or traffic.
When I speak
my own voice shocks me.
And I. I too.
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.
Mots clés appearances
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
Anne SextonYou who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going
After Auschwitz"
Anger,
as black as a hook,
overtakes me.
Each day,
each Nazi
took, at 8: 00 A.M., a baby
and sauteed him for breakfast
in his frying pan.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and picks at the dirt under his fingernail.
Man is evil,
I say aloud.
Man is a flower
that should be burnt,
I say aloud.
Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus.
Man with his small pink toes,
with his miraculous fingers
is not a temple
but an outhouse,
I say aloud.
Let man never again raise his teacup.
Let man never again write a book.
Let man never again put on his shoe.
Let man never again raise his eyes,
on a soft July night.
Never. Never. Never. Never. Never.
I say those things aloud.
I beg the Lord not to hear.
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