Anne Sexton Quote

We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.


Selected poems (ed. 1964)


We do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was...

We do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was...

We do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was...

We do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was...