Sara

“…to be loved
and found magical,
like a secret…”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“I am mad the way young girls are mad,
with an offering, an offering.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“I wear silk -- the cover to uncover --
because silk is what I want you to think of.
But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern.

So tell me anything but track me like a climber
for here is the eye, here is the jewel,
here is the excitement the nipple learns.

I am unbalanced -- but I am not mad with snow.
I am mad the way young girls are mad,
with an offering, an offering...

I burn the way money burns.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems