All you who are awake in the dark of the night,
all you companions of the one lit window
in the knuckled-down row of sleeping houses
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: conversational, Helen Dunmore, loneliness, night, work
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The Black Art 0
A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Anne Sexton, conversational, gender, magic, poems about poetry, social commentary