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who is the loveliest lady in the land?

LOVE SONG

I was
the girl of the chain letter,
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
the one of the telephone bills,
the wrinkled photo and the lost connections...."

the one who kept saying-
Listen! Listen!
We must never! We must never!
and all those things...

the one
with her eyes half under her coat,
with her large gun-metal blue eyes,
with the thin vein at the bend of her neck
that hummed like a tuning fork,
with her shoulders as bare as a building,
with her thin foot and her thin toes,
with an old red hook in her nouth,
the mouth that kept bleeding
into the terrible fields of her soul...

the one
who kept droping off to sleep,
as old as a stone she was,
each hand like a piece of cement'
for hours and hours
and then she'd wake,
after the small death,
and then she'd be soft as,
as delicate as...

as soft and delicate as
an excess of light,
with nothing dangerous at all,
like a begger who eats
or a mouse on a rooftop
with no trap doors,
with nothing more honest
than your hand in her hand-
with nobody, nobody but you!
and all those things.
nobody, nobody but you!
Oh! There is no translating
that ocean,
that music,
that theater,
that field of ponies.

Anne Sexton

Description
model in Man Ray bathroom
berliner interior
NEGATIVE MANIPULATION
Olympus OM2

who is the loveliest lady in the land?

LOVE SONG

I was
the girl of the chain letter,
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
the one of the telephone bills,
the wrinkled photo and the lost connections...."

the one who kept saying-
Listen! Listen!
We must never! We must never!
and all those things...

the one
with her eyes half under her coat,
with her large gun-metal blue eyes,
with the thin vein at the bend of her neck
that hummed like a tuning fork,
with her shoulders as bare as a building,
with her thin foot and her thin toes,
with an old red hook in her nouth,
the mouth that kept bleeding
into the terrible fields of her soul...

the one
who kept droping off to sleep,
as old as a stone she was,
each hand like a piece of cement'
for hours and hours
and then she'd wake,
after the small death,
and then she'd be soft as,
as delicate as...

as soft and delicate as
an excess of light,
with nothing dangerous at all,
like a begger who eats
or a mouse on a rooftop
with no trap doors,
with nothing more honest
than your hand in her hand-
with nobody, nobody but you!
and all those things.
nobody, nobody but you!
Oh! There is no translating
that ocean,
that music,
that theater,
that field of ponies.

Anne Sexton