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I am breaking apart like the world.
I am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.
Tonight, in the infinitesimallight of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.
Tonight, in the infinitesimallight of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.
Sylvia Plath (Crossing the water, 1970)
Edge
The woman is perfected.
Hear dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusions of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her hare
Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.
Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little
Pitcher of mil, now empty.
She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odours bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.
She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.
Hear dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusions of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her hare
Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.
Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little
Pitcher of mil, now empty.
She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odours bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.
She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.
Sylvia Plath (Ariel, 1963)
Este fue el último poema que escribió Sylvia Plath a seis días de su muerte.
La despedida es irrevocable y definitiva.
Sylvia Plath
Me sentía muy tranquila y muy vacía, como debe de sentirse el ojo de un tornado que se mueve con ruido sordo en medio del estrépito circundante.
The Bell Jar
"Era un verano extraño, sofocante, el verano en que
electrocutaron a los Rosenberg, y yo no sabía qué estaba haciendo en
Nueva York. Les tengo manía a las ejecuciones. La idea de ser
electrocutada me pone mala, y eso era lo único que se podía leer en los
periódicos, titulares que como ojos saltones me miraban fijamente en
cada esquina y en cada entrada al Metro, mohosas e invadidas por el
olor de los cacahuates. No tenía nada que ver conmigo, pero no podía
evitar preguntarme qué se sentiría al ser quemado vivo de la cabeza a
los pies. Pensé que debía de ser la cosa más terrible del mundo.
Nueva York, era bastante desagradable. A las nueve
de la mañana la falsa frescura campestre que de algún modo rezumaba
durante la noche, se evaporaba como la parte final de un dulce sueño.
Color gris espejismo en el fondo de sus desfiladeros de granito, las
calles tras las capotas de los coches se chamuscaban y brillaban y el
polvo seco y ceniciento se metía en los ojos y en la garganta."
Sylvia Plath (La campana de cristal, 1963)
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