Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath

Author:Sylvia Plath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

SECOND VOICE:

When I first saw it, the small red seep, I did not believe it.

I watched the men walk about me in the office. They were so flat!

There was something about them like cardboard, and now I had caught it,

That flat, flat, flatness from which ideas, destructions,

Bulldozers, guillotines, white chambers of shrieks proceed,

Endlessly proceed—and the cold angels, the abstractions.

I sat at my desk in my stockings, my high heels,

And the man I work for laughed: ‘Have you seen something awful?

You are so white, suddenly. ’ And I said nothing.

I saw death in the bare trees, a deprivation.

I could not believe it. Is it so difficult

For the spirit to conceive a face, a mouth?

The letters proceed from these black keys, and these black keys proceed

From my alphabetical fingers, ordering parts,

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