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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.

-Anne Sexton

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We Do Not Explain My Husband's Insane

Anne Sexton

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.

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Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, o my best beloved, when the tame animals were wild. the dog was wild, and the horse was wild, and the cow was wild, and the sheep was wild, and the pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the wet wild woods by their wild lones. but the wildest of all the wild animals was the cat. he walked by himself and all places were alike to him

A thing which i regret, and which i will try to remedy some time, is that i have never in my life planted a walnut. nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. if you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. being wild can be dancing weird. being wild can be shooting people. what do i think being wild is? nothing. actually, the whole world is wild. everything is wild.

The cat will keep his side of the bargain. he will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. but when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. then he goes out to the wet wild woods or up on the wet wild trees or on the wet wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. a wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? women are so unwise. love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. you cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. what use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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