#Americans #Suicide #Women #XXCentury
Mother, strange goddess face above my milk home, that delicate asylum, I ate you up.
You said the anger would come back just as the love did. I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog
It is half winter, half spring, and Barbara and I are standing confronting the ocean. Its mouth is open very wide, and it has dug up its green,
A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and isla… weren’t enough; as if mourners and… and vegetables were never enough.
Darkness as black as your eyelid, poketricks of stars, the yellow mouth, the smell of a stranger,
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods— that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed,
Today the circus poster is scabbing off the concrete wall and the children have forgotten if they knew at all. Father, do you remember?
‘Do you like me?’ I asked the blue blazer. No answer. Silence bounced out of his books. Silence fell off his tongue
Listen here. I’ve never played it… in spite of what the critics say. Ask my imaginary brother, that wai… that childhood best friend who com… dress—up and stick—up and jacks an…
I was thinking of a son. The womb is not a clock nor a bell tolling, but in the eleventh month of its l… I feel the November
It is a summer evening. The yellow moths sag against the locked screens and the faded curtains suck over the window sills
You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late A… I speed through the antiseptic tun… where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the…
The rain drums down like red ants, each bouncing off my window. The ants are in great pain and they cry out as they hit as if their little legs were only
There was a girl who danced in the city that night, that April 22nd, all along the Charles River. It was as if one hundred men were…
Jean, death comes close to us all, flapping its awful wings at us and the gluey wings crawl up our n… Our children tremble in their teen… whirling off on a thumb or a motor…