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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 50m
Halfway down from groves where the thin, bitter almond pips Fatten in green-pocked pods, the three net-menders sit out, Dressed in black, everybody in mourning for someone.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 1h
Blooms out of a vase of not very valuable porcelain, And it was I who attracted everybody's attention,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 3h
On this amber bank where grasses bleach.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 10h
Twenty years ago, the familiar tub
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11h
Anansi, black busybody of the folktales, You scuttle out on impulse Blunt in self-interest
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 19h
Bowing and truckling like an old-school Oriental.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 21h
Over tidal-flats where three children played
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 23h
The Great Carbuncle We came over the moor-top Through air streaming and green-lit,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The upflight of the murderess into a heaven that loves her.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What Gerd saw then engraved her mind Plague-pitted as the moon: each bud Shriveling to cinders at its source,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Grazing at the margins of a bad monochrome,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
To feed the thin crows.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thatch smokes in the sun.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Old Bocklin missed, who held a shell To hear the sea he could not hear.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
From his earth-wife's side To wing, sleep-feathered, The singular air,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
His little face is carved in pained, red wood.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So neat she is transparent, like a spirit.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
From his orbit under the elm root.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Him to his knees— Let him send police and hounds to bring her in.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Through Sunday's honey-air We walked (and still walk there— Out of the sun's bruising)
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Not him, nor him (My Selves dissolving, old whore petticoats)- To Paradise.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Such eelish delvings!
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In this day before the day nobody is about.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Where the most watchful cooks go jobless And the mayor's rotisserie turns
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Radiation turned it white And killed it in an hour.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Adhering to rules, to rules, to rules.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Of pink fizz.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Pour of tor and distances.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Behind a goatherd's hut: Near his small stonehenge above the ants' route, One-third ant-size, a leggy spot,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am myself again. There are no loose ends.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And crawls behind it like a worm.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
To you they are only transparencies, clear air.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I tire, imagining white Niagaras Build up from a rock root, as fountains build Against the weighty image of their fall.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I tried my sight on an apple-tree
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Among orange-tile rooftops and chimney pots
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A disturbance in mirrors, The sea shattering its gray one-
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white Mummy-cloths, smiling: I'm all right.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Giving everybody a fair hearing.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As I could between bare toes? That question ended it—I
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And the green-copse-castled Pig hove, letting legend like dried mud drop,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For the blood-heat that would ruddle or reclaim.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A marble sailor kneels at her foot distractedly, and at his foot A peasant woman in black
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is it a Christus,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Skulls. Inscrutable, Below shoulders not once
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The words in his book wormed off the pages.
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fractured pillars frame prospects of rock; While you stand heroic in coat and tie, I sit Composed in Grecian tunic and psyche-knot,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Scrutinizing the fly Of the man's pants
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their color,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Of the magnolia,
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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not wealth nor wisdom stands Above the simple vein,
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