all my pretty ones

[kulaks]

Father, this year’s jinx rides us apart
where you followed our mother to her cold slumber;
a second shock boiling its stone to your heart,   
leaving me here to shuffle and disencumber   
you from the residence you could not afford:   
a gold key, your half of a woolen mill,
twenty suits from Dunne’s, an English Ford,   
the love and legal verbiage of

Comments

[honey_dewdrop]

I love Anne Sexton! She was a woman of true beauty.

[bennybunny]

I love Anne Sexton, such wonderful texture to the language.