The Witching Hour, Halloween 2012

Her Kind

 

 

by Anne Sexton

 

 

I have gone out, a possessed witch,

 

 

haunting the black air, braver at night;

 

 

dreaming evil, I have done my hitch

 

 

over the plain houses, light by light:

 

 

lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.

 

 

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.

 

 

I have been her kind.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have found the warm caves in the woods,  

 

 

filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,  

 

 

closets, silks, innumerable goods;

 

 

fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:

 

 

whining, rearranging the disaligned.

 

 

A woman like that is misunderstood.

 

 

I have been her kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have ridden in your cart, driver,

 

waved my nude arms at villages going by,

 

learning the last bright routes, survivor

 

where your flames still bite my thigh

 

and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.

 

A woman like that is not ashamed to die.

 

I have been her kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 

 

Her Kind by Anne Sexton, via http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171268

 

 

 Halloween Parties kindly hosted by Vanessa Valencia of www.afancifultwist.com, click on the website link to see her own party in full swing

 

My outfit (Leopard Witch): Nicole Farhi black dress; Hobbs shoes; lace veil from my granny Kiki.

 

I'm also proud to be a part of Visible Monday, hosted by the glamorous Patti from www.notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.co.uk, click on the website link to see her outfit and those of many others.

 

 

 

This post was idly hatched while listening to Into The Labyrinth by Dead Can Dance