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� i who was a defaced altar / i who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread. / so i ate myself, / bite by bite / and the tears washed me, / wave after cowardly wave, / swallowing canker after canker / and Jesus stood over me looking down, / and He laughed to find me gone, / and put His mouth to mine / and gave me His air. (the sickness unto death, 1975)

v beautiful collection i think this is perhaps the first of anne sexton i’ve read and i really liked it :) a lot about sickness, religion, addiction, womanhood, motherhood, God, suicide, (which became very poignant when the first thing i read of sexton from the back cover was, �when anne sexton took her own life in 1974��) death; etc.