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Your Great Concern: To Sylvia Plath

Your movements have been padded in pain. I am freer, now, Mouthing my consonants in moments of confidence I am closer, then, To that soft cotton misunderstanding That made you Feminine. Molding, mumbling, controlling The shape of you, and I am Complete In those boundaries You etched in the oven. ***** But you hold no form, Only color, Ripe purple caught in the mesh of impressions. ***** As we look down from the hills onto quick flashes of ourselves Drawn in the flight of leaves Dying, but snared for a moment In our web of vision On their way to the ground... Our sight umbrellaed By your pulsing Sound The hint of Oresteian blue, that only link The crossing of the T Between You, your thin lips And me, holding plums And expectations In equal measure. ***** Oh that echoing space in my soul Where I required you to live To move in your moveables And dream Of better views. The rent wouldn't have been Much, just to shirk Those guilt-ridden ties to the crimes of the world And to embrace my freedom In your vowels Of isolation. But no. You had to have weight. Find consequence in a hairshirt, Retrieve belief from a raised fist. And I am  Left As empty as an O In Winter.

Copyright © October 2000 Sarah Nash


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