JonahSexton



Anne Sexton was born on November 9, 1928 in Weston Massachusetts. Her mother was Mary Grey Staples Harvey and her father was Ralph Churchill Harvey. Anne was sent to a prep school for women to ¨tame¨ her wild behavior, there she met Alfred Muller Sexton II, her future husband and father of two children. In her prep school she began writing poetry, which was put in the schools yearbook. Alfred had joined the naval reserve and was shipped out to a Boxer in Korea. Much of the rest of Anne´s life revolved around Fame, divorce, motherhood, and mental instability, leading to her untimely suicide on October 4, 1972. Although her self inflicted death stained her name, she created a path that many young and old poets respect and follow in their work.

Intentions- Jonah Melinn

Death is a misty cloud that gnaws at the soul

Found in dark alleys and among street corners

It sweeps life from itself, forcing itself out

This is a cause of fear amongst all living things

Fear of death, of being forgotten

Almost as if they did not exist

No remembrance, just a road of good intentions

Gone sour by the sin of man himself.

Ripped out by greed, and sadism

From those pure of heart,

To those far from.

Those who deserve it,

To die Alone.

THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anne Sexton

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gone, I say and walk from church, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refusing the stiff procession to the grave, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is June. I am tired of being brave.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We drive to the Cape. I cultivate <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">myself where the sun gutters from the sky, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">where the sea swings in like an iron gate <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and we touch. In another country people die.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My darling, the wind falls in like stones <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">from the whitehearted water and when we touch <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we enter touch entirely. No one's alone. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Men kill for this, or for as much.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And what of the dead? They lie without shoes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in their stone boats. They are more like stone <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.