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O half moon—-Half-brain, luminosity—-Negro, masked like a white,
Your
Amputations crawl and appall—-Spidery, unsafe.
What
What
Has
Me from that shadow—-The indelible buds.
Knuckles at shoulder-blades,
Faces
Shove into being,
The
Blood-caul of absences.
All night I carpenterA space for the thing I am given,
A
Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White
Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.
The glass cracks across,
The
Flees and aborts like dropped mercury.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
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