Sexton

Famous quotes containing the word sexton:

“Those times I mussed his curly black hair
and touched his ten tar-fingers
and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
Father,
we are two birds on fire.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say,

and yet she waits for me, year after year,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“In his tenth July some instinct
taught him to arm the waiting wave,
a giant where its mouth hung open.
He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
and buckled him under.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)