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For The Year Of The Insane
a prayer

O Mary, fragile mother,
hear me, hear me now
although I do not know your words.

The black rosary with its silver Christ
lies unblessed in my hand
for I am the unbeliever.

Each bead is round and hard between my fingers,
a small black angel.

O Mary, permit me this grace,
this crossing over,
although I am ugly,
submerged in my own past
and my own madness.

Although there are chairs
I lie on the floor.

Only my hands are alive,
touching beads.

Word for word, I stumble.

A beginner, I feel your mouth touch mine.


I count beads as waves,
hammering in upon me.

I am ill at their numbers,
sick, sick in the summer heat
and the window above me
is my only listener, my awkward being.

She is a large taker, a soother.

The giver of breath
she murmurs,
exhaling her wide lung like an enormous fish.


Closer and closer
comes the hour of my death
as I rearrange my face, grow back,
grow undeveloped and straight-haired.

All this is death.

In the mind there is a thin alley called death
and I move through it as
through water.

My body is useless.

It lies, curled like a dog on the carpet.

It has given up.

There are no words here except the half-learned,
the Hail Mary and the full of grace.

Now I have entered the year without words.

I note the queer entrance and the exact voltage.

Without words they exist.

Without words on my touch bread
and be handed bread
and make no sound.


O Mary, tender physician,
come with powders and herbs
for I am in the center.

It is very small and the air is gray
as in a steam house.

I am handed wine as a child is handed milk.

It is presented in a delicate glass
with a round bowl and a thin lip.

The wine itself is pitch-colored, musty and secret.

The glass rises in its own toward my mouth
and I notice this and understand this
only because it has happened.


I have this fear of coughing
but I do not speak,
a fear of rain, a fear of the horseman
who comes riding into my mouth.

The glass tilts in on its own
and I amon fire.

I see two thin streaks burn down my chin.

I see myself as one would see another.

I have been cut int two.


O Mary, open your eyelids.

I am in the domain of silence,
the kingdom of the crazy and the sleeper.

There is blood here.

and I haven't eaten it.

O mother of the womb,
did I come for blood alone?
O little mother,
I am in my own mind.

I am locked in the wrong house.
Written by: Anne Sexton

Book: Shattered Sighs