An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love Poem by Anne Sexton

An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love

Rating: 3.4


Busy, with an idea for a code, I write
signals hurrying from left to right,
or right to left, by obscure routes,
for my own reasons; taking a word like writes
down tiers of tries until its secret rites
make sense; or until, suddenly, RATS
can amazingly and funnily become STAR
and right to left that small star
is mine, for my own liking, to stare
its five lucky pins inside out, to store
forever kindly, as if it were a star
I touched and a miracle I really wrote.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nicole Settimi 10 September 2018

This is an interesting poem, and I like the code aspect. However, that title just promises so so much. It left me wanting something more.

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Malini Kadir 20 March 2008

unique an idea my friend!

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Anne Sexton

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