Entry #131: Anne Sexton

Confessional, unbalanced, and hopeless, Anne Sexton's poetry is pointedly relevant to our complicated times. The search for the meaning of Life, the absent of God, and the sadness of Love found and lost, Anne Sexton was a writer who wrote about abortion, infidelity, and motherhood.

...
Remember, big fish,
when you couldn't swim
and simply slipped under
like a stone frog?
The world wasn't yours.
It belonged to
the big people.
Under your bed
sat the wolf
and he made a shadow
when cars passed by
at night.
.... (excerpt from poem entitled, "The Fury of Overshoes")