An Obsessive Combination of

Anne SextonAnne Sexton

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Ontological Inscape, Trickery and LoveBusy, with an idea for a code, I write
signals hurrying from left to right,
or right to left, by obscure routes,
for my own reason; taking a word like "writes"
down tiers of tries until it's secret rites
make sense; or until, suddenly, RATS
can amazingly and finally 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.
Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton

1928 - 1974/Female/AmericanA poet and writer known for her confessional poetry which mention her battles with depression, mania, and suicidal tendencies.

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