Sarah Nichols

ON SEEING ANNE SEXTON’S HOUSE ON GOOGLE STREETVIEW, 14 BLACK OAK ROAD, WESTON, MA

She is the house
and no one answers the phone

I know that it is all meat
and tears

Under your bed
it is dark

That theater
is my country

Couldn’t you just show me
the dust, the body of glass ?

That soft smother
the book you dedicated

A votive candle
you had not quite forgotten.

My kitchen, your kitchen

I found some order there.

Let me in. I don’t
want to be alone.

This is a cento using the work of Anne Sexton: “The Fury of Abandonment,” “The Fury of Cooks,” “The Fury of Cocks,” “The Fury of Overshoes,” “The Fury of Beautiful Bones,” “The Fury of Hating Eyes,” “The Fury of Guitar and Sopranos,” “The Fury of Jewels and Coal,” and “For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further”

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