Arised
"Arised"
Plath took a silken bath
submerged in dreams
baptised in black molasses and a warmth to leave
Arised
Plath took a man by the hand
lead him out of Honey Land
Bees buzzed his mind stung his eyes
when he walked out of his prison
Plath paved his steps with hidden land mines
Empty Chairs
burned with gasoline gifted
by the Dead of Desire
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.” Plath
"Drama Club"/Martinez
https://youtu.be/nEcS5DOmiRY
“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.” Plath
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. ” Plath
“There is no better way to know us. Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.” Hughes
"I wondered what I thought I was burying." Plath
There is no such word as 'Arised'. For the purpose of this poem, there is.
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