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Childless Woman


The womb
Rattles its pod, the moon
Discharges itself from the tree with nowhere to go.


My landscape is a hand with no lines,
The roads bunched to a knot,
The knot myself,


Myself the rose you acheive---
This body,
This ivory


Ungodly as a child's shriek.
Spiderlike, I spin mirrors,
Loyal to my image,


Uttering nothing but blood---
Taste it, dark red!
And my forest


My funeral,
And this hill and this
Gleaming with the mouths of corpses.

Written by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

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