Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on November 9, 1928. She was educated at Garland Junior College and then Radcliffe, and also studied with, and was heavily influenced by, Robert Lowell at Boston

Small Wire

by Anne Sexton (1928–74)

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 My faith 
 is a great weight 
 hung on a small wire, 
 as doth the spider 
 hang her baby on a thin web, 
 as doth the vine, 
 twiggy and wooden, 
 hold up grapes 
 like eyeballs, 

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