Monday, April 22, 2019

A Sexton poem

Image result for Photo: Anne Sexton with her daughter Linda in 1972. (Houghton Mifflin/From “Anne Sexton”)


Every poem's  like that in Sexton's cute smirk
   
 or the two lips pressed to the filter
   
or a hand draped over the only knee left to her
   


 
   




Friday, April 19, 2019

Titi

Image result for character Hamida Titi in Midaq Alley



As a long-gowned leggy dancing master knows,
  "It's Titi and sweet-both,"

smirking, quick to say to dancing girls all in a row.
   But Titi, grown to stray far

has gone too far so that her lord's slender and
    near, saying "Americans

like their virgins!"and meaning every word of it--
   She's not in her quartier.

"All around and through each one of us," she
   admits, "is a type of dance

that will look dear to dancing girls all in a row"
   "Very much!" was his reply