Plumbing the Deeps

... the last romantic ...

Monday, August 10, 2009

the beauty and the power

Posted by Julie at 7:00 AM

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Candles

They are the last romantics, these candles;
Upside down hearts of light tipping wax fingers,
And the fingers, taken in by their own haloes,
Grown milky, almost clear, like the bodies of saints.
It is touching, the way they'll ignore

A whole family of prominent objects
Simply to plumb the deeps of an eye
In its hollow of shadows, its fringe of reeds,
And the owner past thirty, no beauty at all.
Daylight would be more judicious,

Sylvia Plath, October 1960

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