Kamryn Mello

“Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.”
― Anne Sexton

“I find now, swallowing one teaspoon
of pain, that it drops downward
to the past where it mixes
with last year’s cupful
and downward into a decade’s quart
and downward into a lifetime’s ocean.
I alternate treading water
and deadman’s float.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Give me your skin
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.”
― Anne Sexton, Transformations

“Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.”
― Anne Sexton