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Jean Valentine

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Chicago, Ill

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So what use was poetry
to a white empty house?
Wolf, swan, hare,
in by the fire.
And when your tree
crashed through your house,
what use then
was all your power?
It was the use of you.
It was the flower.

Jean Valentine

Monday, January 13, 2003

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Seán O' Muiriosa 13 January 2006

I'm not very knowledgeable about Sexton but I have studied Plath with great interest. A sad existance and ending to her life... You're poem is excellent, very fitting.

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David Gerardino 20 October 2005

I just finished reading the poems of PLATH, and SEXTAN, the ending of there life is sad, but true....................any way great job...........

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James Hodges 16 June 2005

Wonderful. Thank you.

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