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I wrote two poems like a lot
of people did for Anne Sexton.

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So I'll just read them.

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The first one is called
Lament for Anne Sexton.

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The Sylvia mentioned in
the poem is Sylvia Plath.

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Anne of the 1,000
days and awful nights.

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Anne rushes toward the
arms of an early lover who

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will return to his wife
this time bringing Anne's

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body, Anne's ultimate notebook.

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Anne of the 1,000
days and awful nights.

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Anne drives herself
out of bedlam country

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into only another
kind of gender.

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Anne, Anne, watercolor Anne
washes off eyes and washes off

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hands, whispers to her
little sister Sylvia, Sylvia,

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where is happiness?

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