domingo, 27 de setembro de 2020

Poppies in July


Little poppies, little hell flames

Do you do no harm?


You flicker. I cannot touch you.

I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.


And it exhausts me to watch you

Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.


A mouth just bloodied.

Little bloody skirts!


There are fumes that I cannot touch.

Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?


If I could bleed, or sleep!

If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!


Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,

Dulling and stilling.


But colorless. Colorless.


Sylia Plath

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