plath/hughes

locked box

the box is locked, it is dangerous/o have to live with it overnight/and i cant keep away from it”

dark hands

it was dark, dark/with the swarmy feeling of african hands

appales, unitelliglbe

it is the noise that appalls me most of all/the unintelligible syllables

sweet god, temporarily

tomorrow i will be sweet god, i will set them free/the box is only temporary

wanted bees

when you wanted the bees i never dreamed/itmean your daddy had come up out of the well

bowed

but you bowed over your bees/as you bowed over your daddy

money, nature, fruit

you wanted those big blossoms/clotted like first milk and the fruit like babies

bee volts

as bees plant their volts, their thudding electrodes

veil off, gloves off

you rushed to me your dream-time viel off/you host proof gloves off

pure?

pure? what does it mean

tounges, wheezes

tounges of dull, fat cerebus/who wheezes at the gate

isadora scarfs

love love the low smokes roll/from me like isadora’s scarves

sin

the sin, the sin

too pure for anyone

i am too pure for you or anyone/your body

going up, rise

i think im going up, i think i may rise

pure acetylene

am a pure acetylene/virgin/attended by roses

had fever

you had a fever, you had a real ailment

foreing bug, cried

the foreign bug, you cried for certain you were going to die

satiate flush

i had to satiate you and flush you

spooned, gulped

i spooned more and you gulped it like life

bug dont run away

its only a bug dont let it run away with you

stone man

the stone man made soup.the burning women drank it

done it again

i have done it again. one year in every ten i manage it

peanut shoves

the peanut crunching crowd/shoves in to see

strip tease

they unwrap me hand and foot/the big strop tease/ladies and gentlemen

feel hell

i do it so it feels like hell/i do it so it fels real

same brute

the same place, the same face, the same brute

eyeing charge

for the eyeing of my scars there is a charge

ash bone

ash ash/you poke and stir/flesh there is nothing there

out of ash

out of the ash i reise with my red hair/and i eat men like air

where? strand?

where was it, in the strand?

arrived, studied

just arrvin/ or arrived. were you amoung them? i studied it/not too minutely

veronica lake

noted your long hair, loose waves, your veronica lake bang

exaggerated grin

your exaggerated american/grin for the cameras, the juges, the strangers, the frightners

peach

i bought a peach. i could hardly believe how delicious it was.

miner blue

i am a miner, the light burns blue

stalactites

waxy stalactites/drip and thicken, tears

piranha, communion

a poranha/religion drinking/the first communion of out of my live toes

candle gulps

the candle gulps, recovers a small altitude/its yellows hearten

ruby, wake

in you, Ruby/the pain/you wake to is not yours

the one, barn

you are the one…you are the baby in the barn

blackboard, MM

you stand there at the blackboard:lutheran/minister manque

big shock, bakc bone

a big shock for so much of your Prussian backbone

face dark adit

to meet me face to face in the dark adit

family vault

you had assumed this tunnel your family vault/i never dreamed however occoult our guilt

ghost stir a candle

your ghost inseparable from my shadow/as long as your daughters words can stir a candle/she could hardly tell us apart in the end

sleeping alone

sleeping with his German as if alone

what is behind?

what is this behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful?

shimmering breasts

it is shimmering, has it breast, has it edges?

black eye

black eye pits and a scar

measuring, rules

measuring the flour, cutting of the surplus, adhering to rule, to rules, to rules

veils, curtains

now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains

cotton clouds

the clouds are like cotton/armines of them, they are carbon monoxide

your colour

red was your colour/if not red, then white, but red

blood lobbing

like blood lobbing from a gash..

catastrophic, arterial, doomed

revelled, raw

you revelled in red./i felt it raw-like the crisp gauze/ of a stiffening wound

painted white

everything you painted you painted white/then splashed it with roses defeated it

pit of red

in the pit of red/you hid from the bone-clininc whiteness/but the jewel you lost was blue

you do not do

you do not do, you do not do/anymore black shoe

stuck, i

it stuck in a brab wire snare. ich ich ich, ich

engine, train

an engine, an engine/chuffing me off like a jew/a jw to dachau, auschwitz, belsen

scared, gooblegoo

i have always been scared of you/with your luftwaffe, your gobblegoo

not god

not god but a swastika/so black no sky could squeak through

boot in face

the boot in the face, the brute/ brute heart of a brute like you

stand at black board

you stand at the blackboard dady/in the pucture i have of you/a cleft in your chin instead of your foot

stake in

theres a steak in your fat black heart/and the villagers never liked you

im through

daddy, daddy, you bastard im through

needed a god

your worship needed a god/where it lacked on it found one

god seeker

it was a god-seeker, a god finder

gold jacketed

you were gold jacketed, solid silver, nickel tipped

fury

the fury/of a high velocity bullet

keep true

to keep you true/till you real target/hid behind me, your daddy

position, witch

in my position the right witch doctor