The Colossus: and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780307808820
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 1994-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs

Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore:

So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing,

Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld,

A world we lose by merely waking up.

Trailing its telltale tatters only at the outermost

Fringe of mundane vision, this ghost goes

Hand aloft, goodbye, goodbye, not down

Into the rocky gizzard of the earth,

But toward a region where our thick atmosphere

Diminishes, and God knows what is there.

A point of exclamation marks that sky

In ringing orange like a stellar carrot.

Its round period, displaced and green,

Suspends beside it the first point, the starting

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