(9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974 / Newton, Massachusetts)

poet Anne Sexton
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Poems of Anne Sexton

1. 45 Mercy Street 6/27/2006
2. A Curse Against Elegies 6/27/2006
3. A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston 6/27/2006
4. Admonitions To A Special Person 6/27/2006
5. After Auschwitz 6/27/2006
6. Again and Again and Again 6/27/2006
7. All My Pretty Ones 3/29/2010
8. An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love 6/27/2006
9. And One For My Dame 6/27/2006
10. Angels of the Love Affair 6/27/2006
11. Anna Who Was Mad 6/27/2006
12. As It Was Written 6/27/2006
13. August 17th 6/27/2006
14. August 8th 6/27/2006
15. Baby Picture 6/27/2006
16. Barefoot 6/27/2006
17. Bat 6/27/2006
18. Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) 6/27/2006
19. Buying the Whore 6/27/2006
20. Christmas Eve 6/27/2006

The Kiss

My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby, you fool!

Before today my body was useless.
Now it's tearing at its square corners.
It's tearing old Mary's garments off, knot by knot

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