The Hanging Man
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me.
I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet.
The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard’s eyelid:
A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket.
A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree.
If he were I, he would do what I did.
(I really have no idea what specifically she is talking about in this poem, but I love it quite terribly. Such is often my relationship with Sylvia Plath...)
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